Cassi Creek: Dragons
graced the edges of old charts and maps, indicating the unknown nature of
people and places beyond. In such times,
maps and charts were made as sailors and other explorers pushed the borders
forward by actually sailing or walking across those borders and into new
places.
Today we have
charts and maps that cover most of our globe to a degree of accuracy and
reliability that astounds even the map users among us. We can chart the range of change for mountain
peaks as they undergo erosion and up thrust.
We can chart the depths of local and remote seas, We can monitor the
changes in coastlines and in icepacks, chart the retreat of glaciers, and see
the ocean temperatures change.
The dragons
are still there, lurking, waiting for us to overstep our boundaries by ignoring
the extremely fragile atmospheric and oceanic conditions that allow life on
this planet to exist. We’ve eliminated
the belief in mythical creatures belching flames and despoiling virgins for the
benefit of knights errant. The dragons
of today are found living among us and refusing to accept that science and
physics are cruel and unconcerned for the lives of people who ignore the truth
about biology, geology, and all the other science disciplines that explain the
nature of our world and our universe.
Today’s
dragons don’t focus on despoiling virgins.
They have a much greater lust that encompasses entire continents and
oceans. They’ll quite happily use our
world, abuse and destroy it, and justify it in the name off greed and
profit.
Here’s just
one example of the manner in which today’s dragons far eclipse the behavior of
those great scaled flying myths from but a few centuries back.
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