With All This Worry Over Possible War, Possible Rodents Coming To Testifying Before Congress, Actually Planning To Leave Same, Or Quite Haven't Decided What To Do Yet, Other Than Not Doing Their Jobs

There are still other pressing issues going on that everybody seems hell bent on ignoring no matter what. Tens of thousands are dying all over the world simply because they have no habitable place to go. And, lest we forget, the planet itself is not very happy either. Hence the new info below from Mach on NBCnews.com. about Antarctic ice.

That hole in the ice could be just a very odd seasonal anomaly. Then again, it could be something else entirely, as the indicated trend line for the ice so far ought to surely suggest. Do we wait until it's too late to do anything about it, just to be sure one way or the other? With what is at stake?

I certainly don't think so, but then I am biased about this. I make no pretense about it at all. Even with that, however, you would have to admit that the trend line for arctic ice so far is scary as hell. That is if you were of a mind to pay attention at all of course. Let alone do something if there were a way to do something about it. Which of course there is, but you just don't care anymore, do you. Too many other things going on that you just can't pull yourself away from. Oh well.

It was such a nice planet once. Perhaps the next tenants will do better with it.

A Massive Hole Was Spotted in The Antarctic Sea Ice

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[Post Note: Sometimes I hate it when I am right. And this new circulation info is a real case in point. We must take this very very seriously. It is long past time to start considering what our immediate actions should be, now that we face a very real existential threat. And as I have said before: we need to change our social/economic/political setup in a very substantial way because Capitalism is in no way capable of getting us through this. And, as we did in WW2, mobilizing would require a managed economy in any case; because there can be no mistake, we must mobilize now. But we must do this in a way that can affect the grand compromise that I have proposed between the Right and the Left. If we do that, and we get rid of Capitalism, we still have a good chance to make this right. But make no mistake as well, this will require a lot of hard work, and sacrifice; just like it did when WW2 got everybody working from the same shared vision. J.V.]

The oceans’ circulation hasn’t been this sluggish in 1,000 years. That’s bad news.

[Post Note: Seeing as how we may soon be living on a planet with no ice at its poles, one wonders just how you go about making education be "future proof" as far as jobs go (other than for disaster cleanup of course). This is an especially pertinent question when you realize that it is, in the largest part, our current economic system, where we made jobs, and livelihoods, be dependant on more and more consumption, that has put us not only into dangerous territory concerning our environment (and our relations with other nations), but also as it relates to what the nature of work should be in the first place. No small question when you also have other, related questions, about how that same obsolete economic system has made information itself become a thing lusted after just as much as gold used to be; and therefore hardly conducive anymore for the kinds of distribution that a Democracy would require to continue existing. So how much choice do you think these kids are going to have to exercise in the first place?

But hey. If this gives folks something to do while they wait for the end, who am I to pass judgement on them. J.V.]

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