Collapse: What’s Happening to our Chances?

[Benton D Struckcheon]

4. Silly.

I've seen this stuff come from the right, and here I see it from the left.

Just as a counter, wildlife ranges are expanding, not contracting, in North America. I live in a regular everyday suburb, and whereas a few years ago coyote and bear sightings were unheard of, they're not anymore. I myself saw a pair of coyotes while walking the dog. I knew they were because they looked like a couple of stray dogs from a distance, but once they got up close (they weren't paying attention to me or the dog) it was obvious they weren't dogs. They moved in a completely different way; over a forest floor broken up by dead branches and rocks they just glided, noses to the ground, oblivious to everything except whatever it was they were tracking.

Two things are always desperate: the international situation (especially in the Middle East, of course), and the state of the planet. Both somehow manage to go on, though.

One day civilization will end, in chaos and blood and toxic hell.
One day the sun will explode, too. I'm not holding my breath.