Key concepts: Disaster databases, Greenhouse Effect, psychological operations tactics, anti-Green activism, Leipzig Declaration, Greenhouse denial organizations, exploding sewers, giant algae blooms
Attention Conservation Notice: It's very grim and morbid, and it goes on for 1,500 words.
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Alan Wexelblat, ([email protected]^^^^^^^^^^^^^^****?) perceptively remarks:
I don't have a word for this form of disaster, but I bet we see a lot of them in the "00s". Assuming this event is not sui generis, it seems to me we need to find a way to talk about (name?) this class of disasters.
Criteria:
- A man-made system related to carbon-spewing lifestyle
- Human technical infrastructure exploited past the limits of its capacity
- Additional stresses placed on system by unnatural climate processes
Result = Viridian Disaster.
Hurricane Mitch is not in this disaster class in and of itself. These Viridian Disaster events will be infrastructural in nature, rather than merely external. They'll be collapse, implosion, failure type events, rather than explosive, razing type events. The technical system will tie itself in knots, because the planet really is much bigger/more powerful than these systems were designed to accept.
Alan makes some interesting conceptual points here, but I believe his definition is too narrow. There's another class of event that also deserves ardent cataloguing in the repertoire of Viridian propaganda, because of its psychological-operations effectiveness. These are 21st century unnatural weather events that are unheimlich and uncanny. They are important because they directly affect the rich and powerful. They have weird overtones of contamination, filth, and unpredictable, universal menace == regardless of one's wealth, dwelling locale, political connections or social status.
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"IT'S QUIET, BUT IT'S STILL DEADLY" SAID
THE CINCINNATI CORONER'S AIDE
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Source:
Bruce Sterling ([email protected])
Viridian Note 00084: Viridian Disasters (1999)
(http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/76-100/00084.html)