Happy Winter Solstice…Or End
It is the 21st and the world hasn’t ended, maybe that’ll happen later today. I suppose a few might be reading this from your bunker but most of us we are going about our daily lives:
Scientists confidently predict that the worst upheaval we humans face at the end of this, and indeed any other calendar, is the need to get a new calendar. And perhaps nurse a celebratory hangover.
To their credit – because to say nothing might be worse – scientists have come forward to explain the fallacy, or sometimes that misinterpreted grain of truth, which lies behind each of the doomsday scenarios. In a move that gave short shrift to hedging, the US space agency released a video intended for 22 December 10 days early. Nasa has called it Why the Earth Did Not End yesterday. Academics did their part too. They traipsed from studio to studio to lay out the mundane truth for TV and radio audiences. Some spoke to otherwise respectable journalists for newspaper articles. (Source)
Have a great weekend….happy solstice.
— Steve Patterson
I read a comment somewhere today that people wring their hands about the all kinds of trumped up end of the earth scenarios and the press goes crazy about it, while the real end of the earth scenario, global warming, although slow moving and not as dramatic, goes relatively unnoticed.
(I will add, I can’t remember how long I have been posting at Urban Review, a number of years to be sure. During that time other than some specific issues that Steve has highlighted where changes have occurred response to global warming through city planning is non existent, yet is one of the most obvious and ultimately one of the easiest things to do to combat global warming).
So much for the end of the earth,