"irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies"

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3. I so very much agree. Even environmentally minded people need to keep educating themseves

so we know the facts and not simply take for granted that information we've always trusted remains fact. Knowledge is constantly expanding, data increases and facts evolve with it. Some things are basic and concrete but some things aren't. The need to eliminate all fossil fuel based systems is concrete knowledge. But I think the things that will save us are far more intricate and complex now than they were 10 years ago and that complexity is increasing, maybe even exponentially. We can't get stuck in ideas born in economics that seemed true before. We must keep educating ourselves.