Love the line “cat seeking comfort rarely does half so much damage as a human doing the same.” I have those same feeling about climate change. (I have denier friends who I too felt were doing so for reasons of personal comfort but will forever think of these friends as “comfort seeking cats.”)
With omicron this comfort seeking blind spot will lead to an excess of deaths and economic disruption in 2022. With climate change that same attitude will lead humanity to a meteorological disruption that could do the same on a planetary level for not just one year but hundreds or thousands of years.
That same thinking is the theme of the Netflix movie “Don't Look Up” … humans would rather go on with the comfortable lives than acknowledge the virus/comet/climate crisis about to hit us. Thanks for being someone not afraid to sound the clarion, even if the cats are too comfortable (or complacent) to pay attention or act.
Thanks, Joe! Although I've long worked to keep my own carbon footprint on the smaller side, and have voted for any party that had decent environmental plans since the '80s (starting with the Mulroney Tories, who were great on the environment) I'm also aware that somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking it'll probably all be OK, because the reality is too uncomfortable otherwise.
I think helping people find tools to address the issues is one really important practical aspect of helping us to acknowledge uncomfortable facts. If we have tools to deal with stuff, they become challenges, and people have been known to be good at dealing with challenges.
Love the line “cat seeking comfort rarely does half so much damage as a human doing the same.” I have those same feeling about climate change. (I have denier friends who I too felt were doing so for reasons of personal comfort but will forever think of these friends as “comfort seeking cats.”)
With omicron this comfort seeking blind spot will lead to an excess of deaths and economic disruption in 2022. With climate change that same attitude will lead humanity to a meteorological disruption that could do the same on a planetary level for not just one year but hundreds or thousands of years.
That same thinking is the theme of the Netflix movie “Don't Look Up” … humans would rather go on with the comfortable lives than acknowledge the virus/comet/climate crisis about to hit us. Thanks for being someone not afraid to sound the clarion, even if the cats are too comfortable (or complacent) to pay attention or act.
Thanks, Joe! Although I've long worked to keep my own carbon footprint on the smaller side, and have voted for any party that had decent environmental plans since the '80s (starting with the Mulroney Tories, who were great on the environment) I'm also aware that somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking it'll probably all be OK, because the reality is too uncomfortable otherwise.
I think helping people find tools to address the issues is one really important practical aspect of helping us to acknowledge uncomfortable facts. If we have tools to deal with stuff, they become challenges, and people have been known to be good at dealing with challenges.