The virus has achieved what climate change thus far has not—shown with urgency that we are residents of 1 planet without borders or boundaries, that what we do affects everyone else, that we are all responsible for the common good. This crisis will pass. The lessons must endure.
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Sad irony is that it's gonna have to get A LOT worse for us to learn any lessons.
And the big kicker is if we "over react" and mitigate the extreme damage, then people are gonna go around telling people how stupid they were for "over reacting" because nothing bad happened...
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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