The latest outrage in Canada, and it's gone clear around the world, is news that a great chunk of Canada has broken away from the rest of the country, and, no, it's not Quebec.
In former days it would would have been known as an iceberg.
But in these climate-catastrophe times iceberg sounds too much like ice cube; it's been upgraded to an "ice-island". And it comes complete with micro-organisms and its own eco-system that some would argue makes it a distinct society within Canada.
Laval University's Warwick Vincent claims (and this is the money-quote):
"This is a piece of Canadian geography that no longer exists."
Flags will be flying at half-mast across the country as the enormity of the loss sinks in:
"There are microscopic organisms and entire ecosystems associated with this ice, so we're losing a part of Canada's natural richness."
Entire ecosystems. Let's face it, he's good.
But he could have taken it even further.
Consider these comments by Arkay Ball, president of the newly-formed PETI:
"Newborn babies consist of 78% water.
We share more with icebergs than has been acknowledged.
Icebergs have rights too; after all, they're almost human. The breaking off of an iceberg is a form of infanticide.
Let's work to stop the slaughter."
Oh, and Arkay also wants to wish everybody a happy, iceberg-free new year.
And that's the way the Ball bounces.
1 comment:
We have been informed that that chunk of ice has been there for 3000 years.
What was there before? Could it have been just water? How could that be? Wasn't the global warming that caused the break-away made by man over the last century or so?
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