When it comes to thinking about what we are doing to the planet, our thoughts range from hope through to despair. Here is a book review sharing my latest shift toward hopelessness in mankind's ability to change our beliefs and behaviors for the better - www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Question of the day: how uncomfortable do we/people need to get before we are willing to change?
Surely until we get uncomfortable, we feel no need to change.

“Let us believe, as some poet has expressed it: - behind the cloud the Sun is still shinning“ - Abraham Lincoln en route to the White House for his first inauguration.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth super highway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end is disaster. - Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.

Those who promise us paradise on earth, never produce anything but hell. - Karl Popper

[intro.4] Climate change is not the only critical symptom of our coming demise. Important, but not alone. The myriad of challenges we face have come to be caused the #polycrisis or #metacrisis.

[intro.3] This, All in a drive of our exponentially growing population’s insatiable demand for MORE. More consumption, more money, more power, more stuff. More energy, more minerals, more material extraction. And today, more likes, more follows, more shares, more engagement.

[intro.2 aside] chopping and editing everything I have say into 300 character bits is painful!!! This may be the wrong platform!

[intro.2] One cannot deny, humans of the #carbonpulse for generations have deforested land, degraded soils, depleted oceans, polluted air and water, are destroying biodiversity and causing species extinction.

[intro.1] I don’t like our focus on and the use of the term #climatechange
Climate change is just a symptom, though an important one, but just one, of a vast array of global underlying human caused environmental and ecological destruction and degradation.