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mikedawwwson:

“I can only accept it for about one second a day”

THE AGE OF MAN

Happy Earth Day Everyone! No “holiday” on the calendar depresses me more, because it’s the one day a year our ongoing climate catastrophe gets brought up in the elementary schools, but always couched in a “take care of the planet by turning out the lights and recycling your soda cans” feel-good kind of way.

I say it depresses me, but what’s the alternative? I’m grown and I can barely manage to wrap my mind around the scale of what’s happening to the planet - do I really think kids need more exposure to this existential dread? No. No I don’t.

Got out of work at midnight last night, walked outside to 55 ℉ weather. In New England, in February. The frogs were out, peeping in the swamp. February. It was beautiful and like late spring, and inside I just kept saying “This is lovely, haha, our planet is dying.”