Comments on: On the Slipping of Metaphors http://mossyskull.com/environmentalism/on-the-slipping-of-metaphors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-the-slipping-of-metaphors Ramblings of Michael J. DeLuca Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:32:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: mjd http://mossyskull.com/environmentalism/on-the-slipping-of-metaphors/comment-page-1/#comment-88 mjd Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:44:27 +0000 http://mjd.joskinandlob.com/wordpress/?p=142#comment-88 Oh, I'm not too worried. There are places...wild places, since replaced with oblivious mansions...that I miss as much as certain people. But there are always going to be fascinating people yet to meet. Likewise with wildernesses. I've read a couple of post-global-warming SF pieces of late that attest to this. Besides, chances are if the world really goes to hell, I'm not likely to be there to see it. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. Oh, I’m not too worried. There are places…wild places, since replaced with oblivious mansions…that I miss as much as certain people. But there are always going to be fascinating people yet to meet. Likewise with wildernesses. I’ve read a couple of post-global-warming SF pieces of late that attest to this.

Besides, chances are if the world really goes to hell, I’m not likely to be there to see it.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

]]> By: MJP http://mossyskull.com/environmentalism/on-the-slipping-of-metaphors/comment-page-1/#comment-87 MJP Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:04:09 +0000 http://mjd.joskinandlob.com/wordpress/?p=142#comment-87 Don't worry Mike, the coming nuclear winter ought to balance out global warming just fine. Besides, maybe we're just gullible and both possibilities are just conspiracy theories that we have swallowed head-to-tail. Then again, perhaps turning the term "conspiracy" into an epithet doesn't dismiss the phenomenon as we might wish. Or... we could start looking at property over 400ft above sea level, and in South America: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tlatelolco (due to the lack of non-verbal cues inherent in Internet text communication, I am instituting a qualitative rating system, so that my readers will know how to interpret the attitude of my communication. This communication's rating is: amicable) (any thoughts on why the html tags I stuck in here for formatting disappeared every time I hit the Preview button?) Don’t worry Mike, the coming nuclear winter ought to balance out global warming just fine.

Besides, maybe we’re just gullible and both possibilities are just conspiracy theories that we have swallowed head-to-tail.

Then again, perhaps turning the term “conspiracy” into an epithet doesn’t dismiss the phenomenon as we might wish.

Or… we could start looking at property over 400ft above sea level, and in South America:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tlatelolco

(due to the lack of non-verbal cues inherent in Internet text communication, I am instituting a qualitative rating system, so that my readers will know how to interpret the attitude of my communication. This communication’s rating is: amicable)

(any thoughts on why the html tags I stuck in here for formatting disappeared every time I hit the Preview button?)

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