At some certain instant, tiger habitat became too fragmented to
support them any longer
One further revelation
of instability sparked a blind run on all of their assets
One more tuna caught
and that species lacked a viable breeding population
One final gas price
rise and suddenly it’s the end of giant SUVs and battle-ready
pickups
A random plant closing
and our manufacturing base has finally disintegrated
A millisecond more
sawing and that great, old hardwood could only fall
Once we began to melt
the ice, the warming accelerated independently of our actions
One simple truth can
ignite a revolution that repression can never halt
A bit warmer and the
permafrosted bogs melt and let go all their methane
A seemingly
insignificant gain begins the turn from utter defeat to certain
victory
One more tiny plot
burned off and the rainforest cannot ever stitch itself back together
A final imagined
insult brings the shooter back with a murderous vengeance
A last drop of acid
rain and the fish can no longer breed in yet another lake
A single additional
case turned the simple outbreak into an epidemic
One thoughtless bandit
trail crushed and isolated a entire soil microbe community
Another partial degree
warmer and the pristine coral reef bleached and died
The first drop over
the levee began an unstoppable flood upon the town
From the tiniest
genetic alteration sprang the lethal pandemic virus
A last paved lot
destroys its earthy sponge and another river becomes just a sewer
A final engineering
job outsourced and Yankee Ingenuity is simply a wornout legend
Just a tad warmer and
the insects hatch before hungry songbird chicks are born
One more road built
unleashes another gluttonous orgy of so-called progress
A last paranoid
nightlight hides the MilkyWay in yet another shoddy, overpriced
boomtown
Demand for one more
barrel causes the price of oil to rise for years
A million ice floes,
every one a little smaller, and each polar bear catches fewer seals
A final bit of
overthrust and the plates slip, loosing a huge tsunami
Another mortgage rate
reset and one more overextended family walks away from its home
A last missed lesson
and a blessed child cursingly gives up being literate
One more confusing,
real world issue and literal scripture begins to makes real sense
Some random
stimulation and an orgasm occurs outside of any conscious will
A few more diesels
rumble through the hood and a single-parent baby develops asthma
A little more mercury
in the air and another little girl can’t do her reading
A final swig and the
drunken driver does not avoid a shuffling pedestrian
One more hit of Meth
and it becomes the focus of someone else’s life
A last gallon of
fossil water sprayed into the hot wind and the well goes dry
The desert expands
just a tiny bit and one more family can no longer farm
Change the 6th
decimal of one physical constant and there never was a universe
Just a moment’s
extra sun and cancerous skin lesions are guaranteed
A single catchy slogan
transforms the rowdy crowd into an angry mob
A single case of
counter evidence and the entire theory must be abandoned
One more repetition
and their lying, self-serving propaganda becomes true gospel
Another day of
sunshine and bureaucrats declare the drought official
One more night of a
slow disease progression and that man never walks again
The sight of one more
disaster and agnosticism gains another follower
A last new strip mall
and a tourist trap morphs into a pointless exurban tumor
Still another aching
joint and he realizes he has become old and weak
Suddenly another
senseless bombing finally begins the long-awaited war
One more small
deception exposed and all their belief is suspended
During some
measurable instant the illiterates and evangelicals regained their
majority
One day it simply
became acceptable to print every sign in Spanish
A single survey first
revealed the appearance of their negative savings rate lifestyle
Just another drop lost
and the patient’s blood pressure plummeted
One final fused
hydrogen atom and the sun no longer sustains its reaction
There’s that one
extra mouthful after which it all gets stored as useless fat
There is an instant in
which daydreaming turns into that gentle beginning of sleep
The first time the
snow changes to rain early in the Spring
The moment when the
impossible first starts to become the unavoidable
That hard day when
prayer becomes a welcome refuge from unforgiving reason
That final repetition
that morphs honest patriotism into arrogant and proud ignorance
A first surprising
upset that somehow begins an inevitable string of defeats
That moment of
conception that ensures a rendezvous with the void
Just irreversible
tipping points retreating on beyond our short event horizon
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