I'm finding it a little hard to work today with this in my head.
Antarctic ice extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the mean. That is, I'm reliably told, a one in 13 billion year event.
We're about to see a lot of shit hit a lot of fans. And we are far from ready.
Business as usual is over. Politics as usual is over. We need to be putting our effort into building systems that can help us survive what greed and power and wilful blindness have wrought.
Well said (wrote)
Although, l do often feel like we are up against a sociopolitical & economic "brickwall" that simply echoes it's ignorance, climate apathy & moral grandstanding back at us.
However, as you inferred, due to their (generally rich folk that control society, often by using punitive regulations) ecological (environmental) neglect, the eco-degrading methods of business as usual is approaching that ecological "cliff" edge.
Time to mitigate for a softer landing
Tim Hollo
Empiricism