Not Enough to Go Around

Image of wildfires in Montana comes from rawpixel.com, and is labeled Public Domain. The media are full of ‘explanations’ (opinions) about what is going on in the world. What is Trump thinking. What does country X ‘want’. Why is this the way it is. What will happen next. Why does the Epstein Class behave like monsters. Great fodder for the doom scroll. Easy to come up with, since every idiot has an opinion. But really absolutely useless. Un-actionable, and very reaction-able. Meanwhile, what is important, I think, is understanding the gestalt, the sense of growing anxiety, disquiet, uncertainty, helplessness, and dread that underlies what is going on. Why, in the midst of a growing economic, political and ecological collapse, are most of us almost entirely preoccupied with some unfathomable event that’s happened in the last 24 hours? Radical ecologist Elisabeth Robson has done us a favour by taking us above the trees and given us the broad view of the forest — the ecological state of…