So Cold...

[poliphilo]

Odi turned up on the doorstep yesterday afternoon with bags full of potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, parsnips, melons, aubergines and plums. She'd been to an outdoor market where they were selling off frozen and frost damaged produce for silly money. 

My afternoon appointment with the practise nurse has been cancelled. They didn't tell me why she wasn't coming in, but she's probably snowbound.

George Monbiot says these vicious winters we're having are actually a sign of global warming.

Comments

[negothick.livejournal.com]

I really should have said "one" rather than "you," because we're all susceptible to the "Scrooge" effect--I didn't invent the truism that goes something like "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." That's why charities use the faces of dying orphans rather than bar graphs and flow charts to raise money.

I also apologize for another error of magnitude: the "keyhole" or "bottleneck" of population at the time of the extinction of the Neanderthal, about 65,000 years ago, was estimated at 10,000, not 100,000. And while that population crash was not felt within a lifetime, it came close to wiping us out. Still, as you say, Homo Sap rebounded, again very quickly--and spread all over the planet.