The UN says that we the species are on track to kill off a million other species with our lighthearted shenanigans. But take heart! it can still be avoided, they say …

If there is rapid transformative change.

The problem, dear Nations, is that for every day that goes by driving in the wrong direction, with every trump-voter spawned in the murky seas of a walmart, the change has to be even more rapid, and more transformative. There is no real reason to believe that it will be. I cheer and bleed for the Swedish girl organizing student strikes. She sees things clearly. But of course Sweden is not the problem. The problem is the math of basic human greed, even in Sweden, but worse everywhere else.

My spellchecker doesn’t even think transformative is a word in this language, and I’m inclined to agree.

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In other news, the mucketymucks (also not a word) axed the chair, and installed a very unsettling replacement. Here we go again.

Except I’m different. I’m not the coruscating champion of all that is right. I am just another newb, just another pleb. There will be some pain to go with my unbridled optimism of a day ago. But I will do my best to ignore it and to stick to the half a work week, three quarters of a year Plan where I can.

Life.