California's raging firestorms will claim lives long after their voracious weapons of flame become a terrible memory. Burning furniture and myriad other products composed of plastics and various petroleum-based chemical substances have already converted into smoky toxins destined to enter human and animal lungs, blood streams and eventually vital organs, putting more lives into health jeopardy than one can imagine. And what of flaming areas where nuclear materials were once allegedly stored? These fires aren't merely a disaster, they're an unfolding catastrophe possibly ticking like a time bomb affecting Californians, places and distant lives yet unknown.
Numbers.
Everybody wants the good life, the fairytale existence. Sometimes too much of a good thing attracts too many people to enjoy it, and numbers alone become irresistible when fires start or when the hurricane or tornado come. There can be no escape during the tragic fury when there are too many to escape in the first place, or when the nurturing earth itself turns on you.
No, this is not a tree-hugger speech. It's a numbers speech.
While California legislators whiled away their days by planning a hundred ways to depress citizen rights and increase taxes to accommodate criminal border jumpers instead of being vigilant, inevitable flaming destruction waited patiently. As usual, fire and police personnel bore the brunt of bad decisions as we were again reminded that in the midst of chaos all the Ph.Ds and master's degrees in the world aren't much good outside of the fantasy world we establish. Doctoral theses burn as easily as forests when calamity strikes, leaving behind only a page asking, Oh My, What Now?
Unfortunately, firestorms can evidence their presence in other forms, such as thousands of leftist-organized Hondurans, other Central Americans and terrorist elements believing it their destiny and right to invade the United States. Currently, Mexicans in Tijuana do not enjoy hosting their America-bound "guests" who have planted themselves at the Mexican border. Nor should we in the U.S.
Numbers. It is always about the numbers.
Recent estimates of an extraordinary loss of animal and plant species around the world just since the 1970s-- and we aren't jumping on the "climate change" bandwagon to make this point -- demonstrate that we haven't become much smarter in our human "advancement." Personally, we think it unlikely that humans as we know us will be around in 200 years, but the future might be far different if human reproduction is curbed and the Earth's other occupants no longer face extermination by destructive processes some of us refer to as building something better. Yes, there are times when even we dive deep and believe that cutting the world's human population by a few billion is essential. Taking individual responsibility is the best way to go, but, well, good luck with that when you're up against world religions and other dictators of consequence.
Remember. It is always about the numbers.
Tiny UFO comment: Regarding that Irish pilot UFO sighting -- quick as a wink, I heard the instant oatmeal explanation, guaranteed to blow up like an inflatable raft whenever the "U" term is mentioned in the press: It MUST have been a meteor or meteorites (sigh. . .sigh. . .). Whether this is the explanation in the end, the almost infantile urge of self-proclaimed experts to rush forward with The Ultimate Solution prior to a thorough investigation never fails to disappoint.
