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Unless We Learn (QUICKLY) to Care About Life and Nature — and NOT Just Money, Our Species Will Die…and Will DESERVE to Die
Can I be more stark and direct than this? Is even THIS stark and direct and clear enough?
Right now in Dubai, at COP 28, a bunch of lying politicians are making dishonest pronouncements about committing money towards doing something about the now very, very visible climate collapse. Even after people have seen toxic orange smoke blanketing their cities from gigantic wildfires, after the Earth is now the hottest it’s been in 125,000 years — well, our putative leaders are STILL posturing.
It should be an embarrassment that news media are still reporting these stories as if they had actual substance. And it’s just plain weird that we are still reading them and trying to generate a feeling of hope.
We Call Bullshit
Take a moment. Count from one to twenty-eight. Take your time. Pronounce each number clearly. Do this out loud. I’ll wait.
There. Took awhile, didn’t it? Twenty eight times is a lot of times. The United Nations meetings — there have been quite a large number of them. And think about it: not a single one of them, despite all the pledges, targets and treaties, have accomplished anything whatsoever. After all that, our…
