Living in Bomb Time — 24

The Climate Crisis is here, right now.

Dealing with it should be the ONLY issue on everyone’s mind.

Because we are out of time.

First published by New Scientist in 2009, and republished by Parag Khanna for his book Connectography (2016).

I don’t have a lot of energy right now but I have had a lot of time to read, think, and write a few comments. The news is all bad and it feels that it’s getting worse faster than ever.

If it feels like we are living in “End Times” it’s because we are.

I feel very disassociated from the world these days. It’s like I am looking at everything through a thick glass. There is this overwhelming sadness and sense of witnessing things winding down.

People have wondered why Xi asked Putin to delay his attack on Ukraine until after the Winter Olympics. I don’t.

He did it out of nostalgia and sadness because he thinks it will be the last Olympics ever. He wanted to hold back the fall of night for a few last days before things started coming undone.

Xi, is oddly sentimental. Putin is not.

Putin went for the jugular.

If you are still unclear what the war in Ukraine is about here’s my analysis from March 1st.