The enormity of the global climate crisis is contrasted with the actions of individuals trying to make a difference, echoing a David vs. Goliath narrative. We are living in screwed up, scary and overwhelming times.
As Rebecca Solnit wrote in the Guardian “Everything is weird and everyone is wrecked. This is maybe the biggest and least acknowledged truth of life in the United States and a lot of places beyond right now. It’s the pandemic; the eight years of Trumpism; the distortions, disruptions and corruptions Silicon Valley has promulgated and other looming menaces, including climate chaos.
” I have long been concerned, worried and freaked out about our climate chaos — the escalating damage to planet Earth primarily caused by corporate efforts to commodify nature in every possible way. Solnit writes “For those paying attention, climate change is also an immense moral injury, a reminder that we are part of a system shredding the beautiful tapestry of life on earth and devastating beloved species. Although Covid was a scourge across the globe,” Solnit writes, “far more people — about 8 million — die every year from breathing air polluted by burning fossil fuel, and that’s only one aspect of the devastation, and only to our species.
” Long-term efforts to improve public climate literacy, critical thinking about industry messaging, and understanding the scale of fossil fuel companies’ obfuscation and lobbying influence are vital for inoculating society agai.
