Sorry, Youth

Ha ha [extra-evil laugh], human mother-rapers have unthinkingly yet royally fucked up every aspect of existence they possibly could, from culture to wealth distribution. Now The NYT informs us of other parts of the physical/natural world that have been brought to the brink.

Q.

What do you see as the biggest risk from current trajectories for altered nitrogen flows?

A.

Nitrogen is one of the “big six” elements that is required for all life. The other five are hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. These six elements make all the building blocks – the proteins, nucleic acids, fats, starches. We can’t live without fixed nitrogen – and with 2 to 2.5 billion more mouths to feed in the next 40 to 50 years, we need to fix more nitrogen to grow food. In the end, the nitrogen we use winds up in rivers or in the atmosphere. The rivers flow to the oceans, where the fixed nitrogen allows algae to bloom and then die – and leads to massive fish kills. In the atmosphere, a portion of the nitrogen winds up as nitrous oxide – laughing gas – which is not only a greenhouse gas that is 300 times more potent that carbon dioxide, but also destroys ozone, the gas that keeps us from getting more of a dose of UV radiation. So, this isn’t a joke – we’re talking about humans polluting the oceans and atmosphere at their peril.

One of the things keeping us going is the hope of watching when the saturated fat-saturated bodies of millions of Americans spontaneously combust, burning down their ticky-tacky box houses & releasing the toxic gases in the plastic crap w/ which they surround themselves, resulting in a vast continental conflagration.