Deadly* not violent. My main idea was that it was so unexpected, the scale, the timeframe, the fact that 60,000 soldiers died in the first minute of a battle. People had heard of automatic firing weapons. But not fucking Machine Guns. We have a really good idea of how this will progress. And it’ll be gruesome, but nothing new. Ugh. That last sentence was struck with heavy keys. God damn. The Climate will do the “big work”, but we as a generation cannot fathom the horror of what will unfold at our collective doorsteps.
Really the only reason I dare make my contention (because again, aside from my dismal view of the future I think you are correct) is WWI had an end date.
With something like Climate Catastrophe theoretically its death tally will keep rolling until there's noone left to paint the cave walls..
Deadly* not violent. My main idea was that it was so unexpected, the scale, the timeframe, the fact that 60,000 soldiers died in the first minute of a battle. People had heard of automatic firing weapons. But not fucking Machine Guns. We have a really good idea of how this will progress. And it’ll be gruesome, but nothing new. Ugh. That last sentence was struck with heavy keys. God damn. The Climate will do the “big work”, but we as a generation cannot fathom the horror of what will unfold at our collective doorsteps.
These are excellent points.
Really the only reason I dare make my contention (because again, aside from my dismal view of the future I think you are correct) is WWI had an end date.
With something like Climate Catastrophe theoretically its death tally will keep rolling until there's noone left to paint the cave walls..