possible to observe the unfolding human attack on nature with horror, be determined to do whatever you can to stop it, and at the same time know that much of it cannot be stopped, whatever you do? Is it possible to see the future as dark and darkening further;

So we don’t. And this elaborate act of self-misdirection has many an accomplice: Governments that can’t bring themselves to announce the news like the existential emergency it actually is. The niceties of everyday life which shun the grief-struck herald. The paid agents of Big Oil and Gas who have spent millions to cast shade on news we already wis

possible to observe the unfolding human attack on nature with horror, be determined to do whatever you can to stop it, and at the same time know that much of it cannot be stopped, whatever you do? Is it possible to see the future as dark and darkening further;

the cynics who tell us it’s too late, even the scolds who tell us to go vegan. We’re angry at ourselves — at our own guilt, shame, and helplessness; at our own contradictions as we suck at the teat of the very fossil fuel industry we rail against. We’re angry at other people — at the folks who do nothing, the politicians who do next to nothing, and