These are not easy days to read the news, or listen to it, or think about it. As I heard one radio reporter say yesterday, “It seems the whole world is on fire right now.” Indeed.
In the past week, three articles have stayed with me as I’ve gone about my days. Here’s why.
I have watched with some interest over the past four years or so, but particularly the past one or two, the manner and degree to which climate change appears on the front page. Plenty of others have been watching the same thing, some of them analyzing references to keywords like oil, or fossil fuels, or human involvement (and far too often the lack of those references). I watch and I wonder when hope gives up the ghost. When the last line of “But there is still time” turns into something else. And I feel that to some small extent, we’ve reached that point. Perhaps not that doom is written in stone, but that something is, or at least that there is widespread acknowledgment that the consequences of climate change aren’t waiting in some far-off future but are here, now.
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