Our now-daily apocalypses do not presage a conveniently purgative Big
One after which everything will be different for everyone. It’s more
likely that they are just early evidence of a fundamental physical law:
that any closed system becomes more chaotic as heat is added to it.
Perhaps someday that law will seem as definitive to us as gravity’s, but
right now humanity is frozen in Wile E. Coyote’s classic pose, wildly
scrambling seven steps in the air off that cliff, still not looking
down.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/17/california-burning-life-on-a-tinderbox-planet/print/
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