I dreamed we were a swarm of fallen damselflies, floating face down in the water of a gigantic toilet bowl, urinating. The yellow streams of hot, acidic waste were changing the chemical composition of the toilet water. The water began to heat and bubble and eventually boil.
The sides of the toilet bowl were towering walls of thick ice. As the heat of the toxic water increased, portions of the ice walls collapsed.
The bubbling, boiling water gushed and exploded into a raging geyser, spilling out in a torrent, flooding the bathroom floor. We were swept away. All of us were gone.
On August 26, 2026, a monumental geological disaster occurred. A portion of a glacier in the Himalayan Mountains violently collapsed into a lake, sending a colossal flash flood across a sizeable region of Nepal and Tibet.
If you view video recordings of the disaster, the monstrous current of mud and water towers above buildings. Fleeing human beings appear reduced to the scale of ants before the savage, speeding torrent. Images are terrifying, surreal and nearly unimaginable. But the images are real-the reality shatters illusions.
The death count exceeds 900 and continues rising. The missing number in the thousands. Tourist destinations, villages, small towns, and transportation centers have disappeared.
This geo-disaster is not a subjective nightmare. It is not an apocalyptic movie to entertain our morbid apathy. It happened and was a terrifying, deadly reality in itself and a stark warning. Nobody needs to be a prophetic forecaster to tremble at the future of global warming.
Dante’s Inferno is written in 34 cantos. Canto number 35 is an addition to the rungs
of hell, added by the overshoot obsessions of the Technozoic Era – our current age of
machine-domination, total war, and the rapidly advancing tyranny of the artificial state.
Addendum, September 1, 2026: Here in Washington State, nicknamed the Evergreen
State due to our extensive forests, we have had 50+ wildfires this past summer. Thirty
deadwhales have washed up along the coast. As waters of Puget Sound and portions
ofthe Pacific heat up, oxygen levels drop and a variety of dead ocean fishes are coming
ashore along diverse beaches.
There are climate collapse events of floods, fires and prolonged heatwaves happening
globally, increasing in frequency and intensity year after year.
Greta Thunberg warned us that governments, even the best of them, are not doing
enough to combat global warming. In the United States, voters, refusing or unable to
connect the dots of common sense, have returned to the Presidency a criminally
depraved climate denier.
How much more suffering, loss and depletion will be endured before the sufficient
Reason of necessity transitions the planet from the encroaching Earth-Hells of the
technozoic death wish into the woke-gardens of an Ecozoic affirmation and our species
realignmentwith evolutionary purpose? The question is not rhetorical.
David Sparenberg is a humanitarian and eco poet, an international essayist and storyteller. Currently David has six eBooks of poetry and prose published by OVI Books, Stockholm, Sweden. He recently completed a play, political and contemporary, but based in the traditions of German Expressionist Theatre, to be published shortly - currently available for production and performance. Interested? Contact. David Sparenberg lives in Seattle, WA in the Pacific Northwest of the United States but identifies as an Ecotopian Citizen of Creation.
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