Eruptions and disruptions

Tonga eruption triggers societal disruptions...

Luk: Tonga lost its internet.

Sofia: Especially disturbing after a volcanic eruption.

Birth of an island...

Luk: It’ll take a couple of weeks to get a cable ship there to find the break and mend it. And all that ash that needs to be swept off runways and roads.

Sofia: Lucky the tsunami wasn’t bigger. All these things taking us by surprise. I sometimes wonder if this is all a foreshadowing.

Luk: A foreshadowing?

Sofia: You know, a warning, something that augurs badly. For the weather we’re headed into, for the way world might turn out to be. An approaching dystopian world of no airplanes, inedible fish, snowstorms and floods in dry seasons. Maybe we'll all soon need electric bikes to pedal hard on to generate enough electricity to send a couple of emails over a diminished internet once a week.

Luk: You mean because of climate change?

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Voice-over

Tonga could be a small story prefiguring a bigger one. Tonga as a precursor to post climatic change dystopia? Technology can provide band aid fixes, but one cannot avoid the feeling that whereas volcanoes are natural disasters, human population is another kind of disaster, an ecological disaster. Birth of an island heralds a decline of life as we know it?