“Our entire economic stability rests on massive overconsumption. If we all stop overconsumption we plunge into recession. And all of that excess is killing our planet.”
The publication comes from the research institute at our top university, funded by federal grants. Our state government has just voted to destroy research in the state, so it will be a challenge just to monitor the changes from here on out. It is the dark ages, when prayer is all you need, and “evidence” is fake. Alaskans and Americans won’t read this publication, but the ball is rolling fast now, and there’s no sending it back up the hill, no matter what anyone believes.”
Truer words were never spoken. Yes, the ball is rolling, and the evidence continues to pile up daily, if one is paying attention. Everything from climate instability to rising sea levels to ocean acidification to methane hydrate decomposition to anaerobic decomposition of the tundra substrate to mass species extinction, and on and on. Hard lessons are on the horizon for the human race, and my hope for effective measures is fast fading. In the end, however, I am optimistic, for my faith rests on life itself. The earth is indifferent to our fate as a species, but life at some level of complexity will survive to restart the evolutionary process. Earth and the life it supports will abide.
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