Overblown Fears of Genuine Climate Emergency Action

Ray Katz
5 min readApr 29, 2024

We are addicted to consumerism, and we’re terrified of living as humans instead of as human resources. Time to wake up, okay?

Photo by Nicholas Doherty on Unsplash | Scary windmills!

Saving the planet and our children’s future won’t hurt us. It really won’t. It won’t “cost too much” — whatever that means in this context. The whole “it’s too expensive” claim reminds me of the old Jack Benny joke:

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Ray Katz

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