My Timing

Yesterday I finished reading a book called "Carbon Diaries 2015." Basically, it's the diary of a girl living in London in 2015 when they start rationing carbon use, and all this weird weather happens because of global warming, and then London floods. It was a really dumb book on many levels and I wouldn't recommend it (the storyline would have been much more interesting if the book had been about adults, but maybe that book has already been written), but the timing of it is pretty ironic with what's going on here at home. And the hypothesis about changes that could occur globally as a result of climate change is, of course, the "it" thing right now. It makes for good reads--well, it should make for good "dystopian future" reading, hypothetically. Other books have done much better.

Did you see this picture show from Boston.com's The Big Picture? Click on each picture to see a famous landmark turn the lights off for an hour. Did you hear about this, Earth Hour 2010? I don't think it made any kind of a difference as a global warming statement, other than to make people notice how much electricity we waste to light up pretty buildings (and I think the hill of the Acropolis looks way better unlit anyway).

I don't make it a habit to blog about anything political or remotely social for that matter, and I'm not going to start now. It was simply something I was thinking about this week as our basement flooded while I was reading a book wherein the town flooded.