In Due Time

There were five mass extinctions in Earth’s four-billion

year history. The last one struck some 65-million years

ago. We humans have been around only for perhaps the

last 200,000 years. In that time we have managed to

cause a lot of death and destruction ourselves. And to-

day we’re well on our way to causing a climate calamity

which could and will cause the demise of life on Earth

as we know it. Nothing I can say or do will delay or re-

verse the dire situation we face. So, why bother writing

these terrifying and horrific apocalyptic lines? Well, thanks

to the natural course of the Cosmos and the man-made

schemes, death is the end of the line. And rest assured,

in due time, one way or another anthropologically speaking,

you’ll get yours and I am bound to get mine.

                                           -30-

Chris Hanch 7-15-2020