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The machine stops
Some of us might be dreaming of a white Christmas, but in the West of Britain they might well experience a very wet Christmas. Floods are happening as a write in Cornwall, on the shortest day of the year and for some these floods are following the clear up after floods that happened a few weeks ago.
Probably the rain will ease off in the next few days, and perhaps even a rainbow will remind us of the covenant although rainbows in late December are uncommon.
Flooding is a reminder to us that we live in the environment. It is easy to become unaware that we live in the environment. We can usually get lighting at the flick of a switch, heating at the push of a button and while we are inside our homes and our cars we are in a bubble where we watch the environment close but insulated from it in so many ways.
Walking in the rain this morning I got wet. My hair and clothes were wet by rain, but as I sat down in front of the screen to write this, I was mostly dry and only a little dampness around my calves and hair was evidence of the rain. Soon that will evaporate I shall be dry again, lost in my warm bubble.
We can watch as the world changes and it is only when we have to face the environment with our clothed bodies that we really are aware of what it is and how we live within it. Perhaps the lack of environmental care is as a result of the way that humans in the developed world are increasingly insulated from the environment and for that all is well, until, as E M Forster told us, the machine stops.
Filed under: climate change Tagged: climate, dreaming of a white christmas, e m forster, nature, shortest day of the year, the environment, walking in the rain, weather 
2012-12-20 09:42:51
Source: http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/the-machine-stops/
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