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Most Of Us Will Die; I Am An Optimist
Numbers, plus time, create a world of inevitable change
Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers
The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise…
Growing up with every science fiction dystopia out there, I grew to know that people are going to mess things up.
For a long while, I was a pessimist.
There is no bigger hot mess than the climate crisis, right now, and there is no problem that is unrelated to it. None. Supply chain issues, storms, floods, fires, political unrest, divided loyalties, hate and exclusion, loss of healthy food or living conditions, pandemics, loss of biodiversity, and on and on.
How am I an optimist?
Historically, things have to get much worse before they get better. With eight billion people scrambling for safety all over the globe, we will see suffering on unprecedented scale.
Carnage has already begun, obviously, especially for wildlife, but we have so very many people living apart from nature, that we can’t always notice just how it is touching every life, every moment. We are also distracted by having to make a living, and cope with navigating divided opinions while still…