Open Post

[kimberlysteele]

Hey everyone, I am doing an Open Post in place of an essay or new Snow White installment this week because I'm absolutely swamped. I should have some very cool news in a couple of months max, but I'm still in the silence-keeping phase of the project that's soaking up all my time this week.

The picture is a place I am obsessed with but will likely never see, at least not in this incarnation, Torngat National Park in Newfoundland/Labrador in Canada.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"I believe it will be the main force that shapes the coming centuries."

The reckoning over vaccines will certainly be a major force which shapes the coming centuries, but I think that the world running out of oil will be an even bigger force that will shape the coming centuries.

[kimberlysteele]

Fascinatingly, I think the two reckonings will combine as one. Many painkillers, including acetaminophen and ibuprofen, are petroleum based. Same goes for many chemotherapy drugs, tranquilizers, antihistamines, and antibiotics. Petroleum is also heavily utilized in the manufacturing of medical equipment. When it becomes extremely scarce, it will represent a great turning point. Medicine will have no choice but to become small, local, and mostly triage.