Writing is hard

# 4040

It is getting harder to write because issues cannot be isolated from each other and the system is everywhere and you can’t change the way we make Christmas cards without changing everything, trees, ink, transportation, etc. Single-issue approaches run out of actionable pathways. Nate Hagens, who has done so much to clarify oil, and many other issues, is still at the diagnostic level in his new post - important to watch - on plastics. But it ends with another plea for change but we don’t know where to. Let’s say we could eliminate plastic food wrapping. Lots of jobs lost, and new production around protecting food for increased local harvesting. The cumulative effects would not get us into the woods.

The number of new voices, or old being listened to, is increasing rapidly. They are very good.

several I follow and mull over - not just scan. A few

Paul Beckwith https://www.youtube.com/@PaulHBeckwith Slow and thoughtful

Sabina Hossenfelder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder broadly scoped, strong on science and implications

Whitney Webb https://factspodium.com If you like working out mysteries

And for more on world scene

Jeffy Sachs on Democracy Now.

His recent Youtubes are invaluable,

The interplay among climate, oil. food, corruption, finance, and inheritance help round out the picture, convincing us that there is no single cause of Climate, but many interacting factors. Also as the news is appearing worse, slow muffled panic (from the great god Pan) is more audible and much faster. I, like most of you, are trying to think through how to react. What is worth saying, what to look for?

Fishing village in Borneo, Malaysia where I was a week ago. Rendered quickly as