I wrote a couple days ago about keeping perspective. That we have glamorous and not so glamorous periods in our lives. And when you find yourself in the midst of not especially stellar days, take heart, the wheel will turn.
But, I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't mention the flip side of perspective, and what happens when you pull the camera back even further.
This is how my silly ol' brain runs on that:
Certainly climate change is a reality (regardless of the idiots who mistake local anomalous weather for climate. Climate change has always been a reality. (We really aren't that far past the last ice age.) Now, I do believe in being green and all, and doing what we can for endangered species(although we are actually already about six thousand years into a great extinction phase.)
I don't think humans will go extinct soon (eventually, sure. Soon? How soon is soon?) But with seven billion people on Earth, I just don't think we can maintain that number. I think we'll have a population collapse within the next hundred years (my definition: at least a billion deaths within ten years.) Probably linked to a disruption in the food or water supply, with some added political chaos. It's a problem that we may be able to alleviate, but not solve. (Unless of course, an asteroid takes us all out sooner.)
Why all this catastrophic thinking? Well, Jeff just found out he's got a pretty good FICO score. And I was gripped with the vision of us getting a house just in time for the start of the apocalypse. Nothing does a number on property values like the end of the world.
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