Yep. We rang the alarm bells 20 years ago. No one listened. I left the state, but the fact that this was going to happen was as plain as the nose on your face. People just didn’t want to see.
People don’t want to do the hard work that it will take to live by a new paradigm. It will break the economy for years, but it’ll likely take that to change things. Eventually, we could build back something more in tune with our ecosystem.
I used to live in Florida 20 years ago. I also went scuba diving off the keys. Back then it was shear worrisome that water temps were getting in the upper 80s and there was some occasional bleaching.
It breaks my heart to see what’s happening now. It’s so much worse than it already was when I lived there.
I just finished book 3. Yep. I enjoyed the ride, but the plot seemed a little stretched the more things got expounded on. There was also some unnecessary filler that wore me out to read…
all the long-form expounding on every crisis, struggling, fighting, chasing puppy etc. scenes.
The premise of Thurman’s design seemed a little “out there”. Having a competition that each silo was unaware of and only one being allowed to survive seems ridiculous. Humanity is always going to fragment. As populations grow, expand to different territory, local customs and rites will evolve. Limiting things to only one silo is just unnecessary cruelty. The argument of needing the citizens to forget everything about nano tech, and bombs…also ridiculous.
Nevertheless, I still greatly enjoyed the books.
I just finished book two last night. I’m enjoying the ride, but I admit that as the “how we got here” plot has unfolded in book two, I find myself a little perplexed. Maybe I just didn’t understand
Thurman’s original motive. His line of reasoning is just not connecting for me._
Nevertheless, the books are riveting and I find myself looking for any spare minutes to pick it back up and continue reading.
I think her issue isn’t that she’s paying more via fees and tips. It’s that the store is charging her more for every individual item. One would expect to pay the shopper and delivery person for their effort. But realizing that the store is capturing most of that AND charging you more for every item on top of it seems to be the problem. The shopper, delivery person and the buyer are all getting shafted.