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So Much To Do

Ray Katz
5 min readJul 28, 2024

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What I’m thinking about and working on. Saving the planet is demanding.

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

I’d be stressed out, but the cause energizes me. We need to prevent climate collapse and end the cruel insanity of the current failing civilization.

I care about people, about life, about our world. I saw that we need help and that help isn’t coming. Even brave inspiring people, activists and groups that lobby for social and environmental causes, who do so much often at great personal sacrifice — their valiant efforts don’t seem to make much difference.

The status quo, the elites in all of the powerful countries under capitalism, communism, dictatorship or whatever, are “winning.”

That is, if you consider destroying the habitability of the Earth and dooming your progeny to be “winning.” The elites think they are being successful. They are, literally, insane.

I thought about all of this hard, for long time. I did much of my thinking publicly, working out many of my thoughts and conclusions here on Medium. You may have read those articles.

Birth of The Saners

I decided we needed the smartest, most effective possible activist group, a movement, that harnesses the lessons learned (at great cost) by the previous movements of history. We needed to identify what works, what doesn’t, and what…

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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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