essay: #05 THE ART OF HUMAN CONCEIT

credit: Geoff Kavanagh

SHE SWEPT IN FROM THE OCEAN...
133kph winds later...
She was gone...

Eerie...
So damn eerie...

That howling wind...
And...
Of course...
The...
Sweet...
Lullabye...
Sounds...
Of the trickle...
Of melting glaciers...

Meteorologists...
Were caught with their pants down, again...
Failed to issue warnings...
dammit...
We have the technology to send our imaginations...
To the Titanic moons of Jupiter...

Optimism arrived...
Days later...
In the headline...

US SCIENTISTS DESIGN NEW GENERATION OF NUKES...

I'm thinking...
Consequences...
Right now...
And of the words...
Of Physicist, Ursula Franklin

"It just feels that weight of the human conceit of thinking that human beings are entitled to create elements that have not been in the ecosystem
before, like plutonium, and then say, 'It's business as usual. I just did
it because it was Tuesday and it was very convenient...' The enormous moral and ethical burden of this seems to be so unrecognized."