Guest dream post by my naturalist nephew (Dirk Diddly): Climate Change apocalypse in 2100, from Iran to Illinois

   My Naturalist nephew & I have been chatting and meeting more regularly since we attended the Southern Illinois Biodiversity Conference 2 weeks ago. James Hansen retired from NASA last Wednesday to focus around the PR problem of convincing the US public in the polls that climate change matters as an national issue as well as internationally. Most of them apparently consider it even more abstractly than they do the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty with southeast Asia. Nevertheless it is these two polarizing problems that are seated on either side of the Keystone XL oil pipeline Politics. In order for the US to take part in 21st century Climate Change mitigation and prosecution of corporate eco-criminals, the TPP treaty must fail. And in order for the TPP to succeed, the Canadian tar sands development and other fossil fuel project decisions must not take into account "environmental externalities" the biggest one being Climate Change. They are both competitive and mutually exclusive with one another. Consequently the latest environmental tumblr blog I am looking at is "Neoliberalism-Kills" after the secret terms of the TPP that have Western governments murdering their own future citizens through non-enforcement of environmental crimes. My nephew knows my strong positions on the matter, so that has probably affected his dreams. I wiped my own chat log from Saturday so this is a copy of his chat.

[06:40:00]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://anilinkz.com/series/anime-mirai-2013
[06:40:12]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
good anime
[07:46:09]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/americas/292131-leaked-cable-reveals-bush-administrations-strategy-for-undermining-chavez
[10:03:20]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-GOP-Plan-to-Kill-Ameri-by-Walter-Brasch-130405-968.html#.UV7byukbQa8.tumblr
[10:05:33]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://grist.org/food/oh-rot-the-white-house-just-gutted-the-new-food-safety-rules/
[10:10:01]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://grist.org/news/meet-roy-blunt-the-senator-from-missouri-and-monsanto/
[10:25:29]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://
[11:11:42] >>    www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/04/rhino-horns-poisoned-poachers-protect
[12:16:44]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
there is a disturbing similarity between these 2 articles
[12:16:47]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/secret-service-reptile-aliens/
[12:16:58]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/05/FBI-Out-of-Gas-and-Stranded-as-Mexican-Cartels-Increase-Networks-in-USA
[13:01:51]    
what the wired vs the breitbart?
[13:02:20]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
y
[13:02:38]    
I don't even want to click on the breitbart shit lol
[13:03:24]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://twitter.com/Wonkette/status/320287454366146560
[13:03:34]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
im the last 2 replies
[13:05:49]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
oops the conservative white supremacists are trolling it now
[13:05:54]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://wonkette.com/510537/breitbart%E2%80%99s-brandon-darby-ar
[11:11:42] >>    yan-brotherhood-can%E2%80%99t-be-racist-because-they-have-mexican-friends
[13:06:22]    
y
[13:06:36]    
they sound just like yahoo answers trolls
[13:08:04]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
sure they troll anything that looks 'Liberal' to them
[13:08:25]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
whether gay or black or mexican or abortion etc
[13:08:52]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
that worst ones that I read these days are on WGNNews
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lol this wonkette mag looks cool
[13:09:34]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
there's some heinous gangster racists trolling Tribune corp news for being too liberal
[13:09:36]    
I like the catwoman logo
[13:09:44]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
occasionally they troll McClatchy too
[13:10:22]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
sure wonkette is cool but she also has to do a lot of retractions because of her heavy reliance on social media
[13:10:44]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
nearly 100% of her news sources are online
[13:11:06]     [oldParasiteSingle
[11:11:42] >>    - 25.80.239.98]
i consider her a reliable conservative media critic tho
[13:11:24]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
if she wants to troll Breitbart.com then I say go ahead
[13:13:24]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Drudge report needs some major asskicking too
[13:14:03]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/resources/lewinsky/timeline/
[13:15:07]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Jan 19, 1998 will live in internet infamy as the day pictures of Monica Lewensky's cum-stained dress from the oval office was posted on Drudge Report
[13:15:47]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
ever since then 80% of internet trolls have been conservatives with a boner
[17:13:58]    
I had another odd dream about us being in weird places last night
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We were some years into a future wrecked by climate change
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The northeastern US west to Illinois had renamed itself to Iran and had a permenant desert climate
[17:16:01]    
We were walking from Missouri, which was only sl
[11:11:42] >>    ightly less deserted and fucked up, into the new Iran for reasons unknown
[17:16:36]    
We walked many miles, cars were outlawed b/c of their climate change contribution tho we still saw them occasionally driven of course by rich pigs
[17:17:05]    
They had stations set up every 20 miles or so for wayfarers equipped with stagnant water to drink and rudimentary restrooms
[17:17:28]    
We were mostly the only ones on the road, others rarely left their homes
[17:18:05]    
We made it all the way to central illinois or so to an airport where we planned to immigrate to more hospitible country
[17:18:44]    
but when we got there you started walking back and said you'd rather walk back for some reason
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end of dream lol
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didn't make much sense
[17:20:36]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
actually it does kind of
[17:21:17]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
I told you about Skilling/fermilab predictions right?
[17:22:01]    
possibly
[17:22:02]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Friday he said that Illinois climate in 2100 would be like East Texas in the summer and Chicago would be like Reading, PA in the winter
[17:22:32]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
that means itll be hotter than hell with a snow dump in the winter but almost no rain
[17:23:07]    
huh
[17:23:11]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
we will still be able to farm probably with irrigation and aquaculture
[17:23:14]    
already seems to be getting there
[17:23:18]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
y
[17:23:28]    
that's about how I would describe the last coupla years
[17:24:16]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
anyway your dream suggests that we would be climate change refugees from the oppressive desertification, but that I would want to turn back to my only home once you are safe
[17:25:06]    
IDK I would want to leave if half the country became Iran and turned into a rocky desert wasteland XD
[17:25:12]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
its only natural you would think that way since I traveled extensively for a few years bef
[11:11:42] >>    ore coming back to stay
[17:25:51]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
actually Iran isnt a wasteland like north africa
[17:26:36]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
It probably will be some ind of no mans land after 2100 but itll be one of the last Middle East countriies to do so
[17:27:15]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Pakistan and Afghanistan along with India will be unholy hells tho
[17:27:43]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Iran has extensive farming and more arqable land than Israel
[17:27:51]    
coo
[17:28:09]    
I need to brush up on geography
[17:29:06]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
np
[17:29:27]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Iran
[17:29:59]    
http://blog.chicagoweathercenter.com/2013/03/18/announcing-fermilab-2013/
[17:30:09]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Israel
[17:30:13]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
thanks
[17:31:08]    
come to think of it the rehydration stations were just ol
[11:11:42] >>    d battered rest stops lolol
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for some reason they were the only places left on the road with any water
[17:32:23]    
I don't suppose that's really gonna be how it is
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but things will be fucked up at this rate for sure
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and we HAVE been having severe droughts
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other parts of the us even more so
[17:34:51]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Texas#Piney_Woods
[17:35:00]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Texas
[17:35:21]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
thats what our summers will be like circa 2100
[17:35:35]    
IC
[17:36:24]    
60 inches of rainfall
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and warmer winters
[17:36:38]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
y
[17:37:15]    
lol texas emits the most greenhouse gases in the us
[17:37:15]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
however we will be more vulnerable to atmospheric oscillations and drought than east texas
[17:37:21]    
I did not know that o-o
[17:37:36]     [oldParasi
[11:11:42] >>    teSingle - 25.80.239.98]
sure
[17:37:37]    
I suppose it's BIG
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but
[17:37:49]    
thought it'd be ny or st
[17:37:54]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
thats where most of the oil refineries are
[17:38:01]    
Oh IC
[17:38:23]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
power plants & cars make a lot but refineries make the most
[17:39:13]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
technically I believe agriculture makes that most GHG but we cant reduce those too much w/o mass starvation
[17:39:38]    
hmmmm you know I should come over or st
[17:39:44]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
Texas also has a lot of beef and agriculture
[17:39:52]    
done with biz for the day
[17:39:55]    
it's nice out
[17:40:03]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
per pound cows make the most GHG of any agricultural produuct
[17:40:14]    
we could walk down to FF for junk and pet kitties in what's left of the day's sun
[17:40:21]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
they waste a hell of a lot of land and water too
[17:40:25]    
LOL cows n t
[11:11:42] >>    heir methane
[17:40:28]    
y I fucking know
[17:40:37]    
domesticated animals wreck shit
[17:41:03]    
farmers go apeshit about large predators
[17:41:36]     [oldParasiteSingle - 25.80.239.98]
brb i have to visit the medicine cabinet
[17:41:38]    
y agri stuff messes lots with the environment
[17:41:42]    
k
[17:42:02]    
pesticides
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ferilizer in our rivers
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gmos
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lol

CAVE, VR, Grand Canyon, menial work, food dreams

Dream diary update. I am stagnating a little. My dreams have taken on an unpleasant prison quality, perhaps because I feel that my time alone here has become more of a prison than a blessing lately? Anyway these are no longer my happiest days. Last weekend I felt a crushing depression after watching this news that BP spill Climate Change, and overall environmental degradation had killed thousands of baby dolphins in the Gulf.

This weekend it wasn't depression I felt but ennui. Friday morning I had a dream about virtual environments with television. People were there but I ignored them as I was a researcher about to make a breakthrough with 3DTV. The effect was like a CAVE virtual environment but somehow with solid light objects.

I had stepped through my VR portal into a cubical chamber where TV objects were partially real to me when I awoke.
I viewed this dream as rooted in my dissatisfaction with my life here with the TV plus internet on most of the time. I realized that I was unhappy about my old resolve never to do basic research activities again. So I checked up on my first college adviser's website for the first time in years. I discovered that our last paper together 10 years ago was still among the 5 selected features on his CV web site. We did not part well I think, so I renewed my resolve never to look him up again even though its only 8 miles from here.
Saturday I had a dream about being 1/5 size with hawk wings instead of arms. I soared in the Grand Canyon again but I had a problem with my nestings next to high tension power lines. I raptored the updrafts next to Table Mesa when I awoke.

I viewed this dream as rooted with my dissatisfaction at having resolved never to travel again 4 years ago. I often dreamwalk to Grand Canyon, but this time felt bitter. I realized I must still be depressed from last weekend.
Sunday morning I dreamed about doing menial volunteer and minimum wage work, something else on my forbidden never-to-do-again list. Monday life junk food and the storms outside kept me up most of the night. An hour ago I had a dream about being in a sexually segregated hospital cafeteria. All of the cashiers were young women but we were forbidden to go over to the women's side to interact informally with them. I stumbled over to their side a few times trying to escape before coming back to the men's side of the cafeteria. I put my energies into not looking at the other men and on inventing a new lemon sugar confection while walking around the dessert bars when I awoke. There are any number of things I find dissatisfying about this dream. I realize now that giving up on my diet, on women, and on becoming a cordon bleu can all be added to my long list of give-ups. I wonder when it will seem to me like I've given up too much? Thank goodness I've started reading and doing light exercise again recently with my sister's family. I believe the feeling that I am stagnating is purely subjective depression and can be cured with more zazen.