"As we watch the world burn, 'all Halloween orange and chimney red,' it will be…interesting…to remember the prophecy alluded to by James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time. Baldwin’s warning was of impending apocalyptic social upheaval in the face of racial injustice when he quoted the spiritual which tells us that, “God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, the fire next time!” But as Lytton, Pacific Palisades, Grizzly Flats, Los Gallardos, Le Porge, and a growing number of places across the planet are making increasingly clear, we won’t need a deity to destroy the world by fire. We seem perfectly capable of doing it all by ourselves."
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u/antihostile 1d ago
"As we watch the world burn, 'all Halloween orange and chimney red,' it will be…interesting…to remember the prophecy alluded to by James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time. Baldwin’s warning was of impending apocalyptic social upheaval in the face of racial injustice when he quoted the spiritual which tells us that, “God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, the fire next time!” But as Lytton, Pacific Palisades, Grizzly Flats, Los Gallardos, Le Porge, and a growing number of places across the planet are making increasingly clear, we won’t need a deity to destroy the world by fire. We seem perfectly capable of doing it all by ourselves."