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Please Stop Saying “I’ll be dead before the worst of it hits.”
A discussion about death, corn and other trash, that acknowledges more “we” than “I.”
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.
Our lives are tiny, life on Earth is billions of organisms bigger
Yes, most of us will be dead before the worst of the climate calamities and geopolitical wars happen. That is true. But, maybe we should all just stop saying it all the time?
This true sentiment is usually followed up by noting that ‘I do feel sorry for young people, children, grandchildren, who will have to endure…’
People are not the ones who will suffer most. Many of us doubt human beings will even go extinct. Civilization? Maybe. But, those rise and fall like geologic climate changes and they always will. It’s difficult to wipe out the most adaptable species that ever embarrassingly ever dominated a planet.
Lately, although my SOS and I have both said expressed this idea, we are beginning to see it as a not-so-helpful meme.
Sound bites and memes are socially contagious ideas that ring true, but they don’t always challenge us to…