Sorry to join so late, but Trant hit this one on the head.
Trent Reznor has definitely been studying Global Warming/Climate Change, or listening to someone that knows a lot about it.
"In This Twilight" he is not describing a nuclear bomb, or war etc, he is describing the aftermath of "The Tipping Point".
Nobody knows when, where, or what event will tip the balance, but here goes my attempt at a play by play:
1.) We continue to pollute, put miore CO2 in the air, temperature keeps going up, land dries out.
2.) Then massive forest fires occur, releasing more Co2 in the air making it hotter and hotter.
Then more fires, more heat and this cycle continues on and on until ther is nothing left to burn.
3.) But when that happens there is so much "White Smoke" in the air, that it actually reflects the sunlight back into space like a giant mirror. So he is right, it really is white, but becuase the sun can't penetrate through, we are in total darkness.
This riddle of his is almost like the end of Dark Side of the Moon - the songs "Brain Damage and A Eclipse": The crazy people that exist on the "Dark Side Of the Moon" are the ones that actualy "Shine" or light up when the "Sun is Eclipsed By the Moon" BRILLIANT METAPHOR AND PARADOX these guys have the ability to come with!
This phenoenon is already occuring with air pollution, its called Global Dimming - 30% less sunlight reaches the ground that 30 years ago, so uif this continues we could have food shortages, can't grow crops. - go google the term, check it out - scary stuff.
Anyways, it will be our twilight becuase in about 1 year after the total darkness, we have no plants, then other animals die, so we have no food, and then we get smoked by a winter that will last about 10,000 years.
So yes, this wasn't really a fictional scenario he described, it is WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE DON'T SMARTEN UP!
You guys take care, and like you, I just love the last two songs, as sad as it they are, they at least let me face the future, and acknowledge what the end will look like.
Hey Everyone,
Sorry to join so late, but Trant hit this one on the head.
Trent Reznor has definitely been studying Global Warming/Climate Change, or listening to someone that knows a lot about it.
"In This Twilight" he is not describing a nuclear bomb, or war etc, he is describing the aftermath of "The Tipping Point".
Nobody knows when, where, or what event will tip the balance, but here goes my attempt at a play by play:
1.) We continue to pollute, put miore CO2 in the air, temperature keeps going up, land dries out.
2.) Then massive forest fires occur, releasing more Co2 in the air making it hotter and hotter. Then more fires, more heat and this cycle continues on and on until ther is nothing left to burn.
3.) But when that happens there is so much "White Smoke" in the air, that it actually reflects the sunlight back into space like a giant mirror. So he is right, it really is white, but becuase the sun can't penetrate through, we are in total darkness.
This riddle of his is almost like the end of Dark Side of the Moon - the songs "Brain Damage and A Eclipse": The crazy people that exist on the "Dark Side Of the Moon" are the ones that actualy "Shine" or light up when the "Sun is Eclipsed By the Moon" BRILLIANT METAPHOR AND PARADOX these guys have the ability to come with!
This phenoenon is already occuring with air pollution, its called Global Dimming - 30% less sunlight reaches the ground that 30 years ago, so uif this continues we could have food shortages, can't grow crops. - go google the term, check it out - scary stuff.
Anyways, it will be our twilight becuase in about 1 year after the total darkness, we have no plants, then other animals die, so we have no food, and then we get smoked by a winter that will last about 10,000 years.
So yes, this wasn't really a fictional scenario he described, it is WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE DON'T SMARTEN UP!
You guys take care, and like you, I just love the last two songs, as sad as it they are, they at least let me face the future, and acknowledge what the end will look like.
Take Care - Get a gas mask and a swaeter!
John C.
Victoria, BC, Canada