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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

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I have a hard time watching the mainstream news lately it's been difficult especially when they're doing coverage

the LA fires and uh I know a lot of people may say well this isn't that big of a deal it's a very big deal because I was thinking to myself, you know, what kind of spectacular coincidence of bad choices and bad luck would we have to do

in order to make the earth completely uninhabitable in our lifetime.

Because this is how I see, it's kind of like looking into the future a bit.

When, you know, we always talk about nuclear war, we talk about devastation, we talk about scorched earth policies.

But the fact that we come near this every day, We brought this eventually into play.

And see, that's the overwhelming cultural and historical fact of the modern era.

We tip-tow or top dance so close to the edge.

And whatever we do, we don't wake up the day before and understand that it's the day before, the day before your death, the day before destruction, the day before annihilation.

And so seeing that in the news every day reminds me of just how fragile our modern era is. And I don't know why it's so fragile, because usually in a modern era,

we have, we've taken the precautions. We've learned from history. And we have learned to

aggressively protect ourselves from terrorism or invasion or even something

like this, this huge fire. I mean, we have found in history, we've looked around, we've pulled

the devastation of human life on earth into view. It's there every day when I turn on the

news.

It is so close now that we can see clearly what it would look like.

Now, many of us have not experienced it because we're not there, but we see it,

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