Coming To Siberia

Are you ready for a move
to Siberia? Well, plan on it
bravely because the good
word is out, it will be too viciously
hot and dehydrated to stay where
you’re at. That is if you didn’t drown in
the rising tides anyway. This isn’t
a play on the words ‘sent to Siberia’,
it may be the last refuge, the last defence
for humanity’s pitiful continuance.

Look at it another way, Siberia is
warming to the idea of an influx of
humankind by default, the deep freeze
is thawing at a mercenary pace, water
evaporates carelessly everywhere, and
the current state of the steppes represents
a fertile bog in the making. By the end of
the century, this one or the next, you could
be growing tomatoes and grapes where the
ancient permafrost left rich soils two miles
deep. I know this because my good mate Bob
Ivanoff went and visited his family in Siberia.
© I.D. Carswell 2006