{"id":2199,"date":"2009-10-16T08:07:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2009-10-16T08:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:07:31","slug":"chemical-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/chemical-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via John Maas, who sent me to BLDBLG, as I tossed & turned sleeplessly in an overheated Hyatt Hotel in Buffalo, NY \u2014 after an excellent late afternoon\/evening reading sequences at the &Now Conference<\/strong> by Shelley Jackson and Steve McCaffery, followed by a superb \u201ckeynote\u201d address by Rikki Ducornet who took us from whale pods spotted off the Northwest Coast to Enkidu & Sumerian forest devastation, to biology curios seen at eight to\u2026 I can\u2019t wait to see that piece published. Meanwhile here the opening paras of the Chemical archive post; you can read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Chemical Archive<\/a><\/h3>\n

As the world\u2019s glaciers melt, they\u2019ve begun to release an archive of banned industrial substances back into the environment, chemicals that have been locked, frozen, inside the glacial ice for up to thirty years.<\/p>\n

\"\"According to Discovery<\/em><\/a>, \u201cmany persistent pollutants, including PCBs, dioxins and several chlorine-containing pesticides [such as] DDT\u201d have begun to leach out from melting glaciers in places like Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The idea of a poisonous atmospheric archive<\/a> being unintentionally released\u2014on a global scale\u2014makes me wonder what sorts of news reports we might read in several thousand years\u2019 time, when carbon tombs<\/a> start to leak their quarantined contents back into the atmosphere. The buried skies<\/a> of an industrial era, put to pharaonic rest beneath the earth\u2019s surface, will make their operatic reappearance in future human history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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