Beltane Solstice Moon
Friend and Woolly Tom Crane read my reference to the nuclear option (pulling pants down) in a previous post and reflected: “Some folks in the fifties saw the results firsthand [of the nuclear option] and got up from the table saying “we just can’t do this, cause look what we are doing: we could destroy the planet in just an hour or two!”
See this clip from a test of the first H-bomb.
He then went on to observe that we can’t go somewhere, say the Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands, and watch the degradation of the atmosphere by carbon pollution or the over fishing of the oceans or consumption of fresh water at a rate the skies cannot replenish. If we could, he wondered, might we come to the same conclusion, that this, too, is madness?
And could we, also, become aware of our co-creative powers in that very destruction as we switch on the air conditioner, drive to the store for a loaf of bread or eat cod? An intriguing and thoughtful idea.
