Saturday, 24 August 2019

Warm night

Jacob, my son. It is a warm night. Not sure if it is because it is late summer or because a forest the size of a small continent has been on fire for a month and released millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

We live on an island and we are surrounded by water, this island has been trying to be a peninsular for nearly a century now. Somehow I think we would just be a small atoll if all the fresh water ice melted. I do feel worried. Mass flooding not the worst thing that could happen. We could have a runaway greenhouse effect that leaves earth looking and feeling like Venus. A lifeless world that is alive no more. 

Will the November frost arrive this year? You know better than me. Will October be scary because of halloween costumes? Or will Brexit put the gray on my scalp? What does the 20s decade mean to you my son?

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