Epidemics, pandemics, famine, climate crisis, war, terrorism, capitalism.
Suddenly, harshly, mockingly they are not just words anymore. They came not as lightning, but with lightning, striking not only at our homes, our friends and our families, but also at our core, our foundation… our humanity.
It was as if they all struck together, unanimously, ruthlessly, effortlessly. One did not occur afore another, at least not in the sense that we perceived it to, but then, in what position were we to perceive anything. Looking back at these past decades one cannot help but feel that it must have been a matter of divine retribution. If not an act of God, then an act of Mother Nature.
The increased rise in temperature, coupled with global heatwave after global heatwave caused land-based ice masses to melt at an astonishing rate. A number of massive underwater landslides in the Norwegian Sea caused catastrophic amounts of methane gas to be released into the atmosphere, as well as causing never before seen tsunamis in the Nordic region. Although chocking and unparalleled, this release of green house gases did not measure up to the huge amounts of methane trapped in the ice caps. As sea levels started to rise, covering more and more ice, the gas slowly and deadly slipped out into the air, and the atmosphere.
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