Frog In The Water
Jan 11th, 2008 at 11:56 am by Susie
Being gradually boiled alive. Not one big thing, but lots of little clues like this indicate what we’ve done to the environment:
The freaky run of warm weather in early January has also accelerated one of the nastier rites of spring: Potholes.
Around Greater Boston, city and state highway officials say they are seeing far more potholes than normal for this time of year, thanks to an early confluence of everything that produces those aggravating craters: heavy snow, fleets of plows thundering over the roads, a rock-hard deep freeze last week and now, this week, an early thaw as temperatures have soared into the 50s and 60s.
It’s the beginning of the Big Suck.
See also: Second Law of Thermodynamics.
You’ve gotta ask yourself how long before a complicated infrastructure is no longer capable of being maintained as the resources needed to maintain it deplete.