Memorial

It's Memorial Day weekend, and here in South Florida I was struck by the amount of gasoline being consumed both on and off the water, but mostly on. As I watched people scoot around atop the water while burning fuel that was appearing in the raw hundreds of miles away, I couldn't decide whether I was watching the equivalent of a last hurrah or playing with matches at a gas pump. Not really a surprise that humans aren't really wired for the long view; we'd never reproduce if we understood where we're driving the planet.