Record-breaking cold spells in many places, last year there was a severe drought that impacted a vast swathe of the Midwest. The year before record flooding.
Right now in the west is a serious drought and already some communities are under pressure due to water shortage.
Is this all the kind of clusterfuck which James Kunstler has spoken about? But the clusterfuck he has written and spoken about had to do with the impending scarcity of fossil fuels and the cascading impacts and breakdowns of all the systems so intricately intertwined with their availability and use. Right now it looks like environmental clusterfuck which is another consequence of the overuse of fossil fuels. And, because of the consequences, more fossil fuels get wasted to cope with the problems, thereby feeding the vicious cycle…
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