Mark Morford: 'Fine weather for creepy melancholia'

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle
By Mark Morford

... Let me be clear: “Something is wrong” isn’t just something you mutter to yourself when the weather blips and flops and pulls a weird little stunt, like a rogue cold snap or fluke heat wave that you know will pass in a few days so hey, let’s get out the sunblock and have a freak barbecue in December.

This kind of wrongness, it’s of a different tang and scale. You can feel it in your bones, your primitive animal nature, your equilibrium. It’s not about weather, per se. It’s about something bigger. Deeper. And quite a bit scarier.

... Do you care? Do you feel it? I bet you do. Your very body, your cells, your electromagnetic field and neural wiring, they all understand that nature is not a linear, easily predictable force, particularly when we’ve been slapping her, mauling her, cramming billions of tons of toxic waste into her and generally behaving towards the Earth the way a meth addict behaves toward a mixed green salad. A creeping sense of resigned doom pervades the blood.

... So, what do you do? How do you respond? Do you profess utter powerlessness and hope someone, somewhere figures it all out in time? Do you enjoy the random spoils of odd weather while you can, praying the wildfires don’t wipe out your home or the polar vortex doesn’t kill your grandparents, and store up on bottled water and good porn and Jesus? Do you shrug it off and keep dancing?

Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/01/21/fine-weather-for-creepy-melancholia/

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1. I have never preach about this but

YOU GOTTA STOP EATING SO MUCH MEAT! There, I said it. The first and only time I have said what I should have been saying for years. If you want to do something to address this crisis, reconsidering your consumption of meat is at the core.

Read this excerpt and tell us why you won't:

85 percent of all water in California goes for farming (less than 10 percent is residential), and most of that goes to grow grain, to feed cattle, to feed our gluttonous meat/fast-food obsessions, to feed our obesity epidemic which feeds our love of pharmaceuticals and fad diets...

I am not a nagger. Now that I've said it and you hopefully read why, it's up to you what follows.

[AverageJoe90]

2. I'm not feeling it.

This could have been a pretty good article, but was ruined by "gems" such as this:

Science and common sense agree: It’s all too little, too late.

Which isn't true, btw: the science actually says that we *can* still, and should, try to mitigate the problem.

And that's just one small example, but that should be enough; last thing we need is MORE forced hopelessness.