This article, pointed out to me by my husband, is really scary. I love to scuba dive, but that's not the only reason this detailed description of the plague currently ravaging our oceans scares me. It scares me because things like this are happening, affecting human life tangibly and broadly, and yet most of us remain blithely insensitive to the effects our irresponsible lifestyles are having on the environment. An environment we depend on for our own lives.
Dear reader, no longer can we go about our days thinking that myopic scientists are warning us about low-probability dangers. This stuff is for real. It is an ugly truth that many of the things we love about being human, and, in the rich northern countries, the "necessary" luxuries we slave for, are exactly what is leading us down the path of our own destruction.
These days, the news has been a frustrating read to me, because the same stories are being recycled again and again. What passes for "breaking news" or news analysis is merely a case of journalists taking advantage of the fact that we aren't paying attention. I think that this is a symptom of our sickness: we can only sleep at night if we delude ourselves into thinking that the prophets are scare mongers and the scare mongers are prophets. Otherwise, the guilt from our effect on the planet and its people would consume us.
Dear reader, no longer can we go about our days thinking that myopic scientists are warning us about low-probability dangers. This stuff is for real. It is an ugly truth that many of the things we love about being human, and, in the rich northern countries, the "necessary" luxuries we slave for, are exactly what is leading us down the path of our own destruction.
These days, the news has been a frustrating read to me, because the same stories are being recycled again and again. What passes for "breaking news" or news analysis is merely a case of journalists taking advantage of the fact that we aren't paying attention. I think that this is a symptom of our sickness: we can only sleep at night if we delude ourselves into thinking that the prophets are scare mongers and the scare mongers are prophets. Otherwise, the guilt from our effect on the planet and its people would consume us.
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