Bill McKibben: This is how the earth works now

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50. I've been imagining that world since 2004.

That imagery prompted a long search for "solutions", and an ever-deeper investigation into the causes of our predicament.

My ensuing despair arose from the realization that the world is going to end up in that state or something very similar no matter what "we" do. I think lots of things can be done, but I don't think that preventing the endstate you describe (or something like it) is possible.

So I finally decided to stop wasting my time, energy, money and emotional capital on a lost cause, and instead put it towards things I knew would actually do some good as we move into that new regime - things that would benefit the planet and humanity no matter what state the world ends up in. Things like permaculture, community-building, and helping people reconnect with the sacred nature of life and their true Self. This is the same approach advocated by such notorious doomers as Joanna Macy, Carolyn Baker, Charles Eisenstein, Richard Heinberg, David Korten, Thomas Berry, Chris Hedges, and the folks over at http://www.Dark-Mountain.net

Please read a few of my articles and think about them before you shoot from the hip again. I've plowed this ground quite thoroughly for a number of years now.