I am not simply blogging
for my sanity. I am also blogging for Mother Earth. This is how I think my blog
might help: I am going to address my concerns to hypothetical readers who may
give little thought to what many believe are urgent threats to our climate. My
mental image of this reader is someone with eyes closed, fingers in ears and
chanting “la la la” to ensure that distressing information does not get in. I
SO understand this urge to focus only on the good things in life and the things
that seem to be within one’s power to fix. But I am insuffiently medicated and
therapized to allow me this choice.
My therapist expressed concern
that I am trying to get folks to join me in the
IT IS HOPELESS AND I AM FULL OF
DESPAIR CLUB.
Not at all. I wish I did not occasionally attend this club’s
meetings. I want mankind to rally to save our spaceship (Planet Earth) from the
impacts of our population explosion, resource consumption, and environmental
harm.
I will endeavor to be
informative, compassionate, and humorous (either intentionally or inadvertently)
because I want to add to the many voices of rational and focused concern.
Fingers crossed!
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. -E.B. White