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Make Environment Non-Binary
You and me, and a tree, make we
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, Currents, and Ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD
It’s not just hot or cold
Of all the things in the creation that you can not be binary about, Earth should be number one.
News every day tells us we are at the end of the world. Or we are not. You are asked, in a sense, or directed, to choose sides. Are you a doomer? Are you a skeptic? Are you an extremist? Are the corporations we pay to pollute extremists? What side are you on!?
This suggests that this is a planet where you must be on one side or the other.
Some things are binary. Let’s admit. The truth is that for those dying today to climate/weather and warming-related disasters — including every present and still-to-come pandemic — it is the end.
For those merely affected it is not the end. That is most of us. We have the time we are given. Use it.
Nothing about the air you breathe and the food you eat is binary until it is.
Life is precious, be pro-life
Everything is entirely nuanced, gray and green-shaded, and complex because life is…