Impending Disaster

I’ve got to get this off my chest. Very late last night, after I had been in bed for already a long time trying to get to sleep (it usually takes me a long time) the dh came to bed, and told me that he’d read something really scary and he didn’t want to tell me about it because it was too scary, but then let me know that it had to do with methane and the gulf oil leak. Well, I tried to be comforting, but let me tell you, it made for a bad night. It played into all my worst worries and nightmares and feelings of failure. It seems he had read on line (he spends way too much time on line) about a possible methane bubble that the now blown out well had tapped into. The idea is that this is going to lead to a massive outpouring of methane into the atmosphere that will cause a mass extinction similar to what occurred at the end of the Permian (not sure about that, I’ll have to check). And you know what? This is possible. And even if it does not occur that way, surely adding even more methane to the atmosphere from the rupture, even if it is not a massive bubble, cannot be a good thing since as greenhouse gasses go, methane is far more “effective” than CO2. And there is already a huge problem with methane being released by thawing permafrost in the Arctic. We may already have reached a tipping point as far as warming is concerned. The idea of a huge disaster that destroys most of life on earth does not freak me out as much as the idea of gradually destroying everything. The reason is, that if there is a massive die-off, then presumably I and my children will be part of it, and that will be that. Life on earth will go on in some form or another and over the millions of years that these things take it will evolve into new fantastic forms. I don’t feel as if humans are the pinnacle and if we are gone there is no more point to anything (not sure there’s much of a point anyway). What freaks me out is the sense that things are going to get a lot harder soon and life for my children is going to be very difficult. Will that spur me to some sort of action? Some sort of letter writing campaign? I am feeling like I should call our “wonderful” new senator Scott Brown to urge him to vote for the extension of unemployment benefits. The reason is a bit convoluted. It seems like people really vote from the standpoint of their pocketbooks. If they are feeling really pinched, they’ll vote out incumbents. If they are feeling more flush, they are less likely to. If the unemployment is extended, maybe there is less chance of congress losing too many Dem seats. Keeping the Dem majority will at least make it slightly more possible that some sort of reasonable energy bill could be passed. That is my reasoning. Not that it will work, since I don’t think there’s much chance he will vote for it, but I think it will pass anyway because of the lovely Maine Republicans. Yay Maine.

Is that all enough of a rant? I had to get it off my chest. On to fiber (am I hiding my head in the sand by spending so much of my time thinking about fiber??????

I finished one skein of the really nice grey stuff. Perhaps I’ll post a photo. Then I spent the rest of yesterday in town having tea with a lovely friend, taking the dd to get her bike tire fixed, going to the library where I got Canterbury Tales and more cd books (to listen to while I spin – see I’ve tied fiber in), and then – paying bills (oh wooooohooooo). And then I cooked a big steak for supper, which as far as methane goes is really bad since cows are a huge source of methane. But I’ve had the butt burn really bad lately, so I decided to go with meat since that usually works for me. And today I really ought to do a bunny which will provide more of that (without, I assume, the methane – I think it is just ruminants).

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