Thursday 14 January 2010

Humanity: a Generation of Incompetent Techno-dependants

Yep. You heard it.

The last 10 days have proven we've actually managed to go back in the evolutionary ladder (sort of. Darwin didn't specify that evolution was a forward moving process, merely one of adaptation to challenged presented by the environment).

In this modern, eco-ultra-aware, litigation-enshrouded, health & safety fearing, environmental-apocalyptic world run by people who would have been Smilodon chow a few thousand years ago, we have forgotten basic instinctive responses to dealing with precisely said 'challenges presented by the environment'.

I'm talking about the snow.

Yes, I know I'm not from a country where snow falls profusely, but still.

Three inches of snow effectively crippled the UK last week. These are the sort of numbers people in other parts of the world deal with in late autumn.

In fact, these are the figures which used to be the norm in the UK not that long ago, and are still the norm in parts of the UK, every winter.

And yet...

Health and Safety ran amok as the snow fell. Buses stopped. People panic shopped as if a Hurricane was set to destroy most of England.

If we can't handle a little bit extra snow, I fear Global 'tepidness' will be just enough to finish us all.

A fine bunch of 'evolutionary masterpieces' we are.

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