A Traveler's Log

Toucans and Hornbills represent the unexpected in travel, wildness, delight, and surprise. Where they live, other wonderful animals and plants flourish.

Travel entails new experiences - new sounds, different smells, surprises, sensations not like those at home. Some ideas, feelings, and impressions must be recorded immediately or they are lost; others are best recollected in tranquility (with a nod to Wordsworth).

Bethought: to think; to remind (oneself); to remember
Images and scenes bethought - evoking the moment and reliving it.
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Bubble

Earth may be near tipping point, scientists warn

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0607-global-tipping-20120607,0,4125302.story

"We have created a bubble of human population and economy … that is totally unsustainable and is either going to have to deflate gradually or is going to burst," said co-author James Brown, a distinguished professor of biology at the University of New Mexico. "If it's going to burst, the consequences are really going to be grim for people as well as biodiversity and the rest of the planet."

My take:

Bubble

Bubbles burst

Tulips

Silver

Gold

Real Estate

They all explode in our faces

More or less of us are hurt

The biggest bubble of all

Has yet to go

Mother Nature (anthropomorphically speaking)

will explode

It will hurt all of us

And rightly so.

Of our own making

We always fail to recognize them

Until, proverbially, it is too late.