A un día del paso del huracán hoy vemos a una Nueva Orléans anegada, con cientos de personas en los techos clamando por ayuda, con saqueos que empiezan y se espera cientos de muertos en los diferentes Estados afectado. Los americanos deben estar muy molestos, más cuando parece ahora se está más seguro en Bagdad. Y es que además el agua potable, el hielo y los alimentos escasean en las zonas afectadas, y esperénse que es verano y pronto los mosquitos y las enfermedades podrían convertir a la ciudad del jazz en un infierno del tercer mundo. Y los científicos alertan: Katrina es sólo el inicio, reporta AFP. Y es que el cambio climático parece estar alimentando las tormentas del Atlántico. Jeff Wells también lo explica en su blog, Rigorous Intuition: "Katrina is already the 11th hurricane this season; that's eight more than have ever before been recorded at this time of year. The storms are increasing in frequency and ferocity, and will continue to do so as the Gulf Stream fails. All that heat has to go somewhere. Climate Change is a challenge to our frames of reference. We've known storms before, but storms like these, this often? We've known extreme temperatures, but we've never seen the glaciers retreat and the pack ice melt at such a pace and scale. The old assurances of how bad it can get have been breached, and projected extremes are edging out of the narrow band of conditions conducive to global civilization and perhaps even complex life. And it's not the environment alone that goes begging for precedents. (And I don't think it's a coincidence that it's not.) Politically, economically, metaphysically even, we're all suddenly in over our heads without having moved an inch. And perhaps we should have moved, because the flood was forecast years ago. But like the people in the Superdome, we had nowhere else to go."
Como se dice en magia, como es arriba es abajo. Las tormentas nos golpean desde el cielo, y es que seguramente diría un mago, algo nos está golpeando desde nuestro interior...
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