Fifty Mile Long Burn Scar Stretches From the Mountains to the Sea

[SorellaLaBefana]

...Dozens of blazes began to ignite across the country [South Korea] on March 21 amid dry, windy conditions. The next day, a particularly large plume of smoke was visible near Andong. This fire continued to spread, and by March 25, satellite-derived thermal anomalies indicated that the blaze reached all the way to the coast. Light rain moved over the area and helped officials contain the blaze by March 28. Smoke and clouds ultimately cleared, allowing Landsat 9 to observe a burned area stretching more than 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the coastline.

According to news reports, the deadly fires burned tens of thousands of hectares and destroyed thousands of structures, some of them historic. The incident has been described as being among the country’s worst fire disasters.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/154142/south-korea-charred-by-fire

This sort of event was beyond imagining fifty years ago.

Really difficult not to think we are living in a new world, even the sort of out-of-control but over-controlled world imagined in one of America's most banned books: Brave New World—although the sci-fi movie Idiocracy may be more on point.

Not only is there no "Planet B" (Mars, in spite of the belief of delusional billionaires, is not it) there will soon be no "Plan B" (as in the medication levonorgestrel) or even "plan B" (in the original sense of an alternative strategy) to save our liberties, our democracy or even our physical world