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Living in Bomb Time — 28
If we are going to act on Climate Change, people need to be convinced of the danger.
They need to be evangelized.
This is my sermon.
Many of you are seeing the reality of the Climate Crisis. As it becomes more real to you on the visceral level. It is bringing you to a place of rage and despair.
You are the VANGUARD.
What you are seeing. What you are feeling. Is what everyone else will probably not see for four or five more years.
Information spreads slowly and unevenly. Even in the age of the Internet. Being “informed” has a cost. It’s why governments and universities pay people to be informed on subjects. It eats up the time of really smart people who need to be paid for their time.
In an age of “free information”, individuals trade personal time in order to be informed.
For individuals, “being informed” is a form of unpaid labor. Most people stop updating their worldview in their early twenties. Their lives get busy and something has to be cut back on.
An amazing number of people (about 22%) get all their news from late night comics.
