Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Further Down The Road

For those whose sense of weather peril is somewhat muted, the following picture of a London park, the top part showing it in May, and the bottom part as it appears today thanks to prolonged drought and heat, may help awaken the senses and cognition about how far down the one-way road of climate change we have travelled:



Still not convinced? Perhaps something a little closer to home will help:



Very soon, of course, these images will lose their power to impress, so common are they becoming. The new normal, indeed.

4 comments:

  1. .. the iconic musician, Bruce Cockburn.. who I have always been a giant fan of, is one of a kind.. and he did a song with the following lyric.. "the trouble with normal is it always gets worse".. and I find myself quoting that more and more .. My son asked me the other day (he is now collecting vinyl) why he seemed to know the classic Cockburn songs, but had never really listened to him. He was also stunned by the environmental & political themes. I pointed out we had listened to them endlessly, together. 'you were in a basket or crib, kid.. or a carpet crawler, then a toddler' & I was a DJ who also spun 'my music' at home. He also seems to have subliminal or innate recall of John Prine, Steve Earle & Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, Joni Mitchell, Ian & Syvia, Murray McLaughlin, Guess Who.. among many others.. haha The Band simply blows him away.. as does the film The Last Waltz.. and the Stop Making Sense film, both performance & filming landmarks in live music docu

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    1. All the artists you mention should be treasured, Sal. In many ways, they were ahead of their time, and it is good to know that their influence is still being felt.

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  2. Cockburn sang about lovers in a dangerous time. Turns out we're all living in a dangerous time.

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