Restart the game
It seems like something from my distant past period one of the first computer games that caught my eye with something called Sims. In particular SimCity. I knew the basics of urban planning but this took it to a whole new level where you could lay down the roads and place the factories and then see how the people moved in. One of the key features of the game which seemed almost random was that fires would break out. In buildings and on properties. How little we know. I’ve been watching some of the weather reports from the centre of the United States and right now they’re dealing with what seemed like random fires breaking out in the cities and in the country. Scorching acres of land and destroying buildings. Almost like something out of a game. Now, I don’t understand the full system involved here but it strikes me that if you have a house and the land around it suddenly catches fire that could be a sign that things have gone horribly wrong. Almost off the rails. Think back to those scenes in The Sims where you could put in place railroads and then watch the trains come through. Except that this does not involve transportation. This is purely climate getting beyond itself. I know, we were warned. Things would get warmer before they got cooler. I doubt that I will live to see the start of the next Ice Age but those fires could come into view. Not around here specifically because there is too much motion ocean water and fields that are still wet but if I lived in places south of here those flames could be a risk. I think someone needs to restart the game. And as for allowing fires to burn out of control. They’re not. Right now certain places are throwing everything they have in a last ditch effort to keep their property safe from destruction. As I said we need to restart the game. There have always been wildfires I imagine. Just not at the scale we now are witnessing.
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