What should we be doing with the 12 or 16 hours or so that we’re awake every day? On the one hand, I guess it’s nobody else’s business. On the other hand, it seems like we most days live oblivious to some strikingly serious developments unfolding around us, many having to do with climate.
Then there are the faraway plights of Gazans or Syrian refugees or African hunger or the hoards deciding they can’t live in Ecuador or Mexico or more far-flung places anymore.
Many of us are still trying to carry on as if none of those challenges matter to us, affect us, or are in any way things we can do anything about. We Americans are more concerned with the upcoming election between a decent octogenarian and an inept lowlife trying to avoid jail time, or what we’re gonna plant in the garden this year, who’s gonna prevail by the end of March Madness, the latest rev of GTA, or buying a few shares of a sleeper stock that’s getting some buzz.
Or putting food on the table, teaching the children well, or buying a new truck.
Anyway, sometimes it’s easy to get the feeling that we’ll notice the world is burning about the time it’s too late to do anything constructive about that.
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