Slouching Towards Oblivion

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Dude, Where's My Meme?

Five of the Solomon Islands have been submerged underwater and six more have experienced a dramatic reduction in shoreline owing to man-made climate change, according to a paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The missing islands, ranging in size from 2.5 acres to 12.4 acres were not inhabited by humans. But six other islands had swathes of land washed into the sea and on two of those, entire villages were destroyed and people forced to relocate. It is feared that the rise in sea levels will cause widespread erosion and inundation of low-lying atolls in the Pacific.
It just seems like somebody shoulda posted something on Facebook by now, screaming about how the Greatest Generation did such a gloriously awesome thing and sacrificed so much to liberate the Pacific island nations in WW2, and that it's all in vain now because some asshole conservatives won't even admit Climate Change is a thing and...

Yeah, I know - it doesn't quite fit the prescribed narrative, does it?

My bad.  Never mind.  Y'all go back to doin' what ya was doin' before.

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