Gaia

I don't know if, as some suggest, the planet has a form of consciousness. But reading that forecasters are expecting up to nine hurricanes to form in the Atlantic between now and the end of November, I hope Gaia decides to make a statement about global heating. It would be particularly instructive if all nine were cat.6 and they all landed in major metro areas along the gulf coast. It is long past time for the kind of wake-up call even the most oblivious humans can't ignore, say, all the refineries shut down, tankers washed ashore, Corpus Christie under ten feet of water. I suspect that is what it is going to take. Barring a major, major catastrophe, the only way this juggernaut is slowed and eventually stopped is when the insurance industry collapses. As with so much of the economy, soon only the very wealthy will be able to afford insurance but it's hard to imagine that can last for very long. If ten thousand Los Angeles homes, all worth three quarters to a million dollars, all burn to the ground, there goes all the profit, right? The planet will be increasingly hostile as it rejects all of humanities big plans for a modern world of unlimted energy use. Sorry kids. Remember your physics. In the novel All The Water In the World, the Atlantic coast begins to experience what they call hypercains, mega-storms which drown all the lowlands. Its very ugly. And avoidable until it isn't.