Sorrow in the face of aging would be a poor response to this good fortune.
...On the days when headlines are full, yet again, with firestorms and catastrophic flooding and biodiversity collapse and endless pandemic and a depressingly effective disinformation campaign to deny the climate emergency — on those days...I am glad to be 60 because it means I almost certainly won't live to witness the cataclysm that is coming if humanity cannot change its ways in time.
But that's not the way I think on most days. On most days I am simply grateful for the 60 years I've had....
...On the days when headlines are full, yet again, with firestorms and catastrophic flooding and biodiversity collapse and endless pandemic and a depressingly effective disinformation campaign to deny the climate emergency — on those days...I am glad to be 60 because it means I almost certainly won't live to witness the cataclysm that is coming if humanity cannot change its ways in time.
But that's not the way I think on most days. On most days I am simply grateful for the 60 years I've had....
I wish my 22-year-old self could say the same. I’ll be around a little bit longer to see how much deeper we dig our hole. Though, maybe I should just be hopeful that it’ll all work out. Nature has a funny way of always winning, albeit at great costs sometimes. So, I would hope we can pull ourselves together in the meantime before Mother Nature decides to flip the switch.
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