Wow, it's shocking to see and hear about the flooding in Calgary and surrounding communities. Not so much because it couldn't possibly happen, but because it's a city I'm familiar with and I know plenty of people there, some of whom have been evacuated from their homes. They have no idea what to expect when they will be allowed to go home.
And the part I can't seem to get past is that more than a quarter of Canadians surveyed recently denied the existence of climate change. This flood is the freak combination of a lot of factors: the high amount of rain, the amount of snow melt, the late spring/continued winter in the mountains, the ground is still partially frozen and can't absorb the snow melt and rain...it's all converging to create this mess in southern Alberta.
How many more "freak combinations" of events that cause unusual floods need to happen before that 26% of Canadians wake the fuck up and recognize that we need to change our consumption-based lifestyles.
You know all those movies where the human race is under threat from an alien race that wants to come to our planet and kills us and suck up Earth's resources? Yeah, that's us. We're the species that is tearing this planet to pieces, causing immense destruction to get some goo out of the earth that will fuel our plastic lives.
Humanity: Fuck, we're dumb.
A cure for our selfishness...
...Wish you were here.
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