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I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
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Many people realize that our WORLD is on a path that may lead to extinction. Many people thus do “THEIR PART” in making the change necessary to help. They become vegetarian to decrease greenhouse gases, buy an electric car, recycle, start composting, etc etc. All these minute changes, they say, if added up, will make the difference. Its possible, I mean theres a non-zero chance that these actions will make that change.
But if you think about time spent, versus change made, you have a linear amount of change over time that amounts to a tiny, tiny drop in the bucket.
What you and others are now finding is the knowledge to create greater change than a drop. To make the same time spent, far more effective.