I can tell you that it's starting to feel a bit... postmodern? in South Texas. I'm not sure the right word to describe the feeling. Nearly every year the meteor

I can tell you that it's starting to feel a bit... postmodern? in South Texas. I'm not sure the right word to describe the feeling. Nearly every year the meteorologists tell us that we're breaking heat records, and subjectively I can feel it having gone from unpleasantly hot in summers when I was a kid to something verging on life-threatening for a few months of the year. I never saw as many trees die as I did this past summer, and a co-worker's well failed; it felt like the start of an apocalyptic movie. And yet... everyone just kind of kept going, and what else are we supposed to do I guess? Hope some deus ex machina appears and saves us? There is still a fair amount of denial of the phenomena itself, but more than that I think that people think it will all just work out somehow. I don't seem to have that ability; I was mostly just hoping I'd be done with this Earth by the time things get real bad, but it seems like the consequences are moving faster than I had anticipated.