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Let’s Have “The Talk”

Ray Katz
4 min readMar 23, 2023

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We can’t avoid this forever. In fact, we must talk about this honestly right now.

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Time for the talk. Not about sex. Or race. It’s not about politics. Or religion. It’s certainly not about girls’ periods— a taboo subject in Florida and other fascist states. It’s not about the existence of gay people…yet another taboo subject for fascist politicians. This talk isn’t even about the option of terminating a pregnancy.

No. It’s time to talk about the MOST TABOO subject of all:

The illegitimacy of leaders and systems that are destroying the ecosphere to maximize their personal wealth and/or power. And taking immediate steps to remove all of them permanently.

This is the talk we need to have right now because we have been evading the most terrible crisis threatening the Earth and all its inhabitants: climate collapse. We know from our own senses and the research of 15,000 climate scientists that our extractive fossil fuel economy is rapidly turning the planet into a deadly hellhole. This is something we must terminate immediately using whatever approach is required.

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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