Why Worry About the Environment

With every catastrophe, there’s opportunity, right? I guess that’s a Trump Philosophy.

Harry Hogg
3 min readMay 9, 2024
Image: Author — View from Hotel room

I ask this question, looking out to sea sitting on a beach in Hawaii, with a towel over my head to see the screen, drinking a cold beer and watching my wife, (when I’m not under the towel) wearing very little, relaxing and getting a tan.

But look, the sheer volume of physical, organic life on this planet — insect, animal, plant, human — has steadily increased since the last ice age ended. Altogether, they have formed a massive organic skin over the globe — a porous skin of carbon-based, water-dependent life-forms that have irretrievably altered the balance of energies received from the Sun and radiated by the Planet. Life-forms thrive on these energies and try to adapt as the changes take place. As of the present moment, that adaptation has been successful.

If you consider that the volume of minerals that make up the planet is tens of thousands of times more massive than the mass of organic life-forms, and the molten magma that circulates within the Earth is so huge, it takes eons to awaken its awareness. The Planet’s immune system springs into action, clearly emulating the behavior of the organic life forms. Over the eons to come, the planet will remove the troublesome organic film, as it has done so many times before. Eruptions and ice ages reduce the organic barrier over time, covering it, compressing it into what humans once called ‘coal’.

For all practical purposes, there is an unlimited supply of the minerals, metals and alloys needed to sustain us until the end of time. Nevertheless, as our organic programming facilities vanish, we are all faced with a unique challenge. Yet, as we are all aware, challenge implies opportunity.

Now, for all the practicalities mentioned above, there are those who insist we are on the verge of collapse, the Earth will burn out, and all of us along with it. Now, as I say, sitting here in a pleasant 76 degrees, taking in the beauty of the Hawaiin Islands, I look down on this moment of inflection in the development of our unlimited Universe and decide what would Agent Orange do, or as described by Stormy Daniels, Orange Turd, assuming that within the next era, prompt action is essential.

Agent Orange, over to you.

Well, Harry, I would look for someone to sell this valuable blue planet to, so I can pay my legal bills?

There you have it, folks.

Image: Author by Jenny

Bernie Pullen | Michelle Jimerson Morris | Amy | Julia A. Keirns | Tina | Pat Romito LaPointe |Brandon Ellrich | Misty Rae | Karen Hoffman | Susie Winfield | Vincent Pisano | Marlene Samuels | Ray Day | Randy Pulley | Michael Rhodes | Lu Skerdoo | Pluto Wolnosci 🟣 | Paula Shablo | Bruce Coulter | Ellen Baker | Kelley Murphy | Leigh-Anne Dennison | Patricia Timmermans | Keeley Schroder | Whye Waite | John Hansen, Trudy Van Buskirk, | Dixie Dodd | The Doctor — Joanie Adams| Adda Maria | Dennett | | Nancy Santos | Jenny Blue | Jack Herlocker | Love | Barbara J. Martin | Audrey Clifford | Maria Rattray | Jerry Dwyer | Denise Shelton | Trisha Faye | StorySculptress | Deborah Joyce Goodwin (Red:The-Lady In Blue) | Kelly Corinne Elliott | Emma Vincent | izzibella Beau | Karen Grant | Shay Bishop | RosenberryRJ | Anna V | Miriam Connolly | Stephen Dalton | Mike Range

(No offense will be taken if you dislike being tagged for various reasons. Please let me know, and I’ll be sure it doesn’t happen on my posts again. If, on the other hand, you’d grace me by allowing a tag, I’d be thrilled to add you.

--

--

Responses (5)