Natural Causes

I saw George Carlin on TV saying the people in the California fires deserve to lose their homes for overbuilding, and they should learn to live in balance with nature, like the Hopi Indians did.

Carlin's a great comedian, but I think he was trying to be serious here. Alas, he gets it completely backwards. We live in better balance with nature now than at any other time in history. For most of the past, nature kicked our ass. Now it's closer to a draw.

In the old days people were far more likely to perish through starvation, pestilence or natural disaster. I have no wish to follow Carlin back to that abusive relationship.