You know, looking into the sort of cooling we should be expecting from the decrease in incident light from the sun has got me caught up in a spiral of anxiety. There are far too many potential problems from this change in the sun to really deal with, and we have no idea what else about the world may change at instant.
No wonder the media are being a voice of calm.* Excited people, they buy newspapers. Angry people, they make news. But people who realise that this may indicate the sun is about to go supernova,** they kill the messenger. Well, maybe not deliberately, but riots aren't good for business, and if the world doesn't end the news companies would rather still be in business.***
If the sun doesn't go nova, we've got crop failures worldwide, of course. Not just due to decreasing sunlight, but have you noticed how clear the skies have been the past two days? Evaporation is powered by sunlight. And hell, no-one seems to know how fast the temperatures should be changing, but when the icecaps start moving outwards, we're sure gonna know about it.
Renovating the sahara desert has never been more important.
I'm not looking forward to the riots when the common people actually realise this shit.
*You didn't think there was something weird about that? Seriously, it's never happened before.
**Yeah, I know, our sun would only go nova, but most people don't even know what a nova is, let alone the difference between it and a supernova.
***Sometimes companies look a little too like living things for my liking. I mean, do you look after your skin cells? Would you really like to be one of the cells of some corporate hyperorganism?
I think this whole thing is bringing out my inner paranoiac.
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