On this Earth Day, here we are as a state, country, humankind, suffering from unspeakable tragedy, a global pandemic, yet the natural world can’t believe its good fortune.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tmlLNghks1k …
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The distant outline of mountains, seen from cities, has never appeared sharper or closer. Marine life is returning to once unnavigable waterways. Other wildlife - bears, deer, ducks, geese, mountain lions - are reclaiming ceded ground. The rate of CO2, methane, and other
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greenhouse gas emissions has plummeted, though, still, 70 million barrels - 2.94 billion gallons - of oil per day is being consumed. While we wish for the end of the pandemic and the reopening of our economy, the rebooting of our revenue and profit streams, the return of our
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routines and way of life, we as a species may be alone in that wish. It’s lamentable that what has been good for humankind - by convention - has been a net negative for the Earth. (And, as we’re seeing, vice versa.) Our great mission, for which there is only a finite amount
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of time, is to remedy this unsustainable inverse relationship, to make it direct again, and to make it direct, for the first time ever, with a human population numbering in the billions. It’s doable, but not with tired thinking.
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