A long beach with straight cliffs backing it. San Andreas Fault, I bet. Hear but can't see people on a trail atop the cliffs. The beach isn't all sandy--rocky shelves, tidepools in spots. A biology teacher shepherding a class tells me "It's not as rich as it was--not just human overharvesting but a literal Death of a Thousand Cuts--vandals throws bottles off the cliffs, they shatter on the rocks into a zillion sharp little shards." Wave action rolls and smooths the shards into sand and pebbles, within months, but malicious jerks are in such generous supply they contribute a thousand new razor-shards daily. The pools are hard to live in now--every step a cut.

I walk along the beach and find it's true. Up top, laughter. Bottles rain down. Half a dozen a minute! Many hit sand and don't break; but enough do to supply a thousand fresh knives to replace the ones Nature's patiently worn smooth.

Nonchemical poisoning! Not even for profit. For no reason at all.

• Empty pools: Local sealife HAS thinned--not from glass, from poachers selling to China. Decimated abalone and even mussels. And on land--plant rustlers! Species don't go extinct--just sparse where they once thrived.
• Slow relentless die-back from unfriendly conditions: a theme of a symposium I read on Volcanism, Impacts and Mass Extinctions. One piece argued the Ice Ages began the current mass extinction, not human warming--cold swings kill as much as hot. It still argued humans are worsening the mass extinction--and the dream points out it's not just habitat loss--individuals' callous acts can kill too.
• Tiny sharps eroding health: my own flesh! I have recurring inflammatory attacks, still undiagnosed (no health coverage); but antibiotics suppress it, implying a bacterial or parasitic infection. The most likely suspect: Lyme spirochetes, which burrow through tissues. That is, a literal death of a thousand cuts.
• Jerks throw bottles and laugh: Since Trump was elected, I've had nightmares like Shoved off a Cliff about his recklessness--ignoring the consequences of praising racists, cutting regulations, starting trade wars--and just plain wars.
• ACTION: Support candidates who see Trumpism as an unthinking war on all. Because that's how my dream-biologist sees it--death of thousand cuts!

Now these selfish jerks slowly killing off whole communities they don't even think about--not even malice, just spoiled-brat selfishness--seem to sum up the debacle of Covid-19 in America, where half the country not only can't be bothered to put on a mask to protect others more vulnerable than them, but spit on you just to be sure you catch it and die.

Bitter? Immuno-compromised moi?

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