E.B. White’s Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity

So, we’re at this key point. Where our challenge is not just to reduce emissions...but now we have this other challenge: of maintaining our humanity through whatever lies ahead. Maintaining our humanity through that period of ugliness and desperation that we are inevitably on track for.

For only a very tiny sliver of that time, we’ve been organized in empires, doing this large-scale fucked up shit to the Earth and to each other. The vast majority of our wisdom, of our deep ecological knowledge, our ancestral wisdom, our ways of being in the world, is to care for each other in community. I have an exceedingly high level of certaint

Andrew: So, do you believe that human extinction is a 100% certainty? Is there a path — even an infinitesimally narrow one — by which we survive? Do we have any wiggle room?

Yes, the situation we find ourselves in is far worse than we think and maybe worse than we can imagine. . . . And yes, the actions offered by our governments amount to “too little too late”. . . And yes, the promise of technological salvation delivered via mystical “market forces” is complete nonsense . . .Yes, that may all be true. And that should