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Foolish leaders and systems have nearly destroyed the world several times. This time, we need to reject them and save our children ourselves.
We’ve had an ongoing threat of nuclear war for more than half a century. We came extremely close during the Cuban Missile Crisis and on other less well-known occasions.
Our species has the capablity of destroying itself and ruining the biosphere that makes human life possible. This time, our leaders and systems will not pull back. This time, they will do the unthinkable and the unforgivable.
Unless WE stop them. We can. We forget that we can. We comfort ourselves with lies, but most of us know that the excuses for ongoing fossil fuel use are lies. We try to sleep through the crisis, but we sleep fitfully.
The climate collapse is here, and STILL there isn’t even a planet-wide plan to save us. Just tired lies and more fossil fuels and vague assurances that everything will be okay.
It won’t. IT ISN’T.
Let’s Not Be the Uvalde Police Force
Infamously, during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the police refused to enter the classrooms, giving the shooter enough time to finish his massacre unimpeded.
