If you are reading this, you are probably old enough to have "seen" the end of the Great Barrier Reef. No really, think about it... as long as I can remember we called it "One of the 7 Natural Wonders Of The World"... and we've killed it. How many millenia did it take to grow that biome of life, beauty, and harmony... we kill it in an instant and barely even mention our Genocide.
THIS DECADE was supposed to be the "line in the sand" for critical Climate Action... we are just about half way through and we've done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. One candidate for US President is saying "Drill baby drill"... and the other pledges NOT to ban fracking... one of the most ridiculous practices to ever come out of a feeble human brain.
Meanwhile, everyone is distracted, in a dopamine haze from their social media mind control, and the levers of power are nowhere near SERIOUS people. I can't explain how confounded, frustrated, and exhausted I am with this knowledge; and it feels like there are only a small handful of people who are sane enough to acknowledge the problem, let alone fight it.
I'll leave you with another pleading scientist, because that's all I can do now, shout into the algorithmically deprivileged void.
