Here’s the bad news. With increasingly toxic air, shorter winters, the Gulf Stream slowing, water-giving glaciers disappearing, and crop failures…it’s time we act, urgently, now. Otherwise our habits will be the death of us, and our children.
But there’s good news too. Humans are not evil. There is so much kindness, so much decency, creativity, and delight within us all. But we become evil when we become selfish, when we mistakenly think that our happiness is separate and more important than someone else’s.
To me, it seems that all of the human-caused environmental issues are here because of selfishness and greed. We want more, we want bigger, we want newer, we want faster.
But perspective is always helpful. Bear in mind the concentration of wealth: the richest 1% grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth created since 2020, worth $42 trillion, almost twice as much money
