Carry On Those of Noble Heart

We might get blasted by a gamma ray geyser from a neutron star taking formation hundreds of light years away. We might suffer a years-long crippling of our electrical grid and apparati from a solar mega storm, the last of which occurred with our Sun a hundred sixty odd years ago. We might suffer a winter that lasts years unabated because of the eruption of the subterranean super-volcano beneath Yellowstone Park, which might put billions of tons of ash into our atmosphere. We might experience the largest tsunami the world has ever seen if the volcano of Tenguia on the Canary Island of La Palma erupts and causes a part of the island to subside into the Atlantic Ocean. If the cosmic pinball machine that is our Asteroid Belt causes one of those huge space rocks (or planetessimals as physicists like to call them) to change its orbit and fall into line with the Earth's, one of them could strike our planet and make a nuclear war seem like child's play. The glaciers on Greenland might melt away due to Climate Change and submerge Atlantic coastlines permanently (in terms of human lifespans), placing some of our greatest cities beneath the sea. And yet, we must go on being what we were meant to be, doing what we were meant to do, giving what we were meant to give, creating what we were meant to create. Of the aforementioned potential global disasters, only one could be prevented; if we change the basis of how we energize our society the glaciers will stop melting from greenhouse gases heating up the planet, but greed has made this issue a steep battle for change indeed. To warn about something we have the power to remedy is one thing. But if we can do little or nothing in practical terms, we must live our lives bravely and with hope, and accomplish things in defiance of the doomsayers who would paralyze us with pessimism. Threats of various kinds have always loomed over humankind, but if we had dwelt upon them, we would have never accomplished anything worthwhile. If possible dooms are being thrown in our faces now by a computer-animated media, one should inquire: what is the motive of those who so gratuitously do this? One thing is for sure: these dire possibilities hanging over us today are not slowing down the actions of those who would do harm. So let us boldly do good. If it all ends tomorrow, we can be proud to say with our dying breath that we kept our humanity. And if the world doesn't end after all, look at the positive difference we will have made by soldiering on beneath the arrogant spittle of these puppet-string prophets.