Are We Doomed?

https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/are-we-doomed

Environmentalists, like all people today, are often pressured to be positive, to have solutions, and to look on the bright side.

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Emissions are climbing. Pollution is increasing. Population is rising. Meanwhile, economic inequality is at it’s highest level ever. The rich grow ever richer as the poor work to the bone, grow sick, and die. Meanwhile, popular culture glorifies technology and wealth. We live in a culture ruled by patho-adolescents ruled by sociopaths.

[…] as Immanuel Kant wrote: “If justice perishes, human life on earth has lost its meaning.” And this means that, like Socrates, we must come to a place where it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong. We must at once see and act, and given what it means to see, this will require the surmounting of despair, not by reason, but by faith.

I saw in the conflicts I covered the power of this faith, which lies outside any religious or philosophical creed. This faith is what Havel called in his essay “The Power of the Powerless” living in truth. Living in truth exposes the corruption, lies and deceit of the state. It is a refusal to be a part of the charade.