The future is our daunting problem. Earth s temperature is rising, its growing fever carefully, constantly monitored now by science. Once unimaginable, catastrophic environmental change looms on the near-horizon of history. Yet life goes on as if it is all a fantasy. Election campaigns pass with bare whispers of concern about the impending tumult.
Economies chug along.
Entertainment keeps us satiated. But beneath the thin veneer of ease we sense the unmistakable drumbeat of despair. Some among us the young, those close to the land and to the sea take notice and cry out. Their warnings sound eerily familiar. Disaster overtakes disaster.