https://outline.com/59rVuA

For what kind of sick group is this even a question? And the mentality he is drilling into the child of "crisis" means, maybe he should not have had a child.

"Our first child was born at the end of August. I am not a young parent; I was born in 1974, and in the span of this one generation, global carbon levels rose by nearly twice as much as in all of human history before. I teach environmental law, so naturally people get around to asking whether my wife and I struggled with what it means to bring a child onto this troubled planet, and whether it is a good thing to do at all....

It is a truthful one, at least, but it raises more questions. What does it mean to teach a child to live in a time of perennial crisis, always in the shadow of loss? I think about trying to teach him love and wonder first, before he inevitably learns fear. I would like him to be fascinated by a Manhattan red oak, a red-tailed hawk perched in its limbs, or a morel mushroom at its roots, before he thinks, This forest is going to die, with everything in it. When the thought of climate doom arrives, I hope it will arrive in a mind already prepared by curiosity and pleasure to know why this world is worth fighting to preserve...."

Holy hyperbole, Batman!

(01-10-2020 10:12 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Holy hyperbole, Batman!

For sure, the forest isn't going to die from global warming. Hell it might thrive from the extra CO2.

(01-10-2020 10:29 AM)Jugnaut Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 10:12 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Holy hyperbole, Batman!

For sure, the forest isn't going to die from global warming. Hell it might thrive from the extra CO2.

This. I wouldn't hire him for anything that involves the "environment" if he doesn't know forest don't DIE from an increase in CO2 and water. Has he never heard of wetlands. Mentally ill.