Dec 31, 2021·edited Dec 31, 2021Liked by TJ Radcliffe
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.
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.