www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/31/magazine/hannah-richie-interview.html
Sadly, yes, and so goes the forest.
I certainly appreciate the authors perspective but the outcomes that we collectively must achieve to end the anthropogenic climate emergency are not in place yet and actions are the only reports that . Granted, it is my Biophilia that makes advocating for other species and ecosystems personally fulfilling, and in a more negative sense, the loss of all these beautiful species and places, is unacceptable.
The feelings don’t matter beyond that point. Nor does dwelling on what is at stake if you aren’t going to dig deeper and make real changes, or worry about will happen if you don’t act. Celebrating the good doesn’t really matter either. Especially when the stakes are the end of rainforests. The death of oceans. The extinction of whales or wolves. ect.
Which are just a few of the reasons why I still believe the only thing in this whole climate change emergency that does matter is cause and effect. Here we have all of this ice already predicted to melt. What are we going to do about it. Plastics are choking our oceans and will continue if we don’t end our dependence on cheap containers and fossil fuels. The same goes for the state of disappearing species and predicted sea levels rising. The floods, fires, pandemics we know will continue.
What are you going to do about it?