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We know better. We are just conditioned to mind our own business. Our children’s future and the health of our planet is our business.
Do not go gentle into that dark night.
— Dylan Thomas
Fossil fuels are toxins and authorities everywhere are willfully encouraging oil profiteers to spew them into the atmosphere in record amounts even though they know that alternative clean energy is available and necessary. For them, it’s too inconvenient and not profitable enough to try to stabilize the climate.
They are killing your children because they are greedy and lazy and they don’t care. They’ve also invented excuses (that they may actually believe) to continue on this genocidal path. But the truth is the truth.
This “business as usual” approach is ratified by an absurdly blasé media (climate change is just another story) and the fact that your friends and neighbors also accept universal death as ignorable and perhaps no big deal. But secretly, many of them feel exactly as you do.
The real problem, some say, is climate anxiety. The idea of dealing with the anxiety by actually trying to solve the problem isn’t considered an option.
