Ashes to ashes
Amazing that all UK airports are still closed due to the gigantic mass of volcanic ash currently being spewed forth from Iceland. The fact that neither terrorist strikes nor union strikes can ground every single flight in the country just goes to prove that the earth can fuck up human stuff far more than we ourselves ever could.
Unfortunately this does add more fuel to the anti-climate change fire. If natural events can cause this level of disruption, the sceptics will say, then what difference does humanity possible make in the great scheme of things? Well, while it's undoubtedly true that the earth doesn’t need our help to mess about with its climate, that doesn’t mean we aren’t playing a significant role in climate change either, or that it's not worth spending money and changing elements of our culture to try and minimize these changes.
Mind you, it is a pretty sobering to think that supervolcanoes such as the one in Jellystone Park (oh alright, Yellowstone Park), whose eruptions will potentially be ridiculously huger than the present Eyjafjallajokull one (dont'cha just love those Icelandic names), are just sitting there biding their time. Scary yes, but also strangely cool. Our planet rocks!
Unfortunately this does add more fuel to the anti-climate change fire. If natural events can cause this level of disruption, the sceptics will say, then what difference does humanity possible make in the great scheme of things? Well, while it's undoubtedly true that the earth doesn’t need our help to mess about with its climate, that doesn’t mean we aren’t playing a significant role in climate change either, or that it's not worth spending money and changing elements of our culture to try and minimize these changes.
Mind you, it is a pretty sobering to think that supervolcanoes such as the one in Jellystone Park (oh alright, Yellowstone Park), whose eruptions will potentially be ridiculously huger than the present Eyjafjallajokull one (dont'cha just love those Icelandic names), are just sitting there biding their time. Scary yes, but also strangely cool. Our planet rocks!
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