In other words, the Epoch of the Great Meltdown is already underway.Īs in all catastrophic situations, though many will suffer, vultures are on the scene, too, eager to benefit from the carnage. With 200 wildfires still active, the state’s Department of Natural Resources officially extended that season to September 30th amid unprecedented dryness. And speaking of Alaska, it wasn’t just that the temperatures in March (March!) were 20 degrees warmer than usual or that, in July, those in Anchorage, the state capital, rivaled Miami’s, but that the wildfire season, which usually ends in the first days of August, continues today.
Like the Amazon rain forest, Arctic forests and peat bogs have also been burning, putting vast plumes of smoke into space for dramatic satellite photographs.Ĭonsider all this a signal that humanity is entering a new age. There’s none within 150 miles of the Alaskan coast in an Arctic warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. As Dahr Jamail, author of The End of Ice, pointed out recently at Truthout, amid the planet’s warmest July on record, Alaska’s sea ice disappeared - just melted away for the first time in recorded history.
