ocean, and soon discovered that it was not well, and without immediate and decisive change it was going to get a great deal worse. now that i knew this i had to figure out what i was going to do with it. i stepped off of the roller coaster and onto the ‘slip ’n slide’. i sold my big beautiful mansion, and gradually began shedding all my stuff. i was houseless, but not homeless. the kids and i lived on the boat down at the washington marina, but the drive to school was killing us. all i could think of was the carbon i was pumping out of my suburban into the atmosphere, which in turn was acidifying some tiny little pterapod’s exoskeleton. i didn’t need a house, but my kids yize kungaziwa ukuthi iyozala nkomoni kepha zikhona izimo osekusobala ukuthi sezimile futhi sekuyoba lukhuni ukuba ziphele. okokuqala umengameli wezwe ngesinqumo sakhe sokuqoka ugordhan uthathe uhlangothi kwabanye ngoba bathi bekumele enze lokho okwanqunywa yinkantolo yomthethosisekelo odabeni lukazuma nomvikeli womphakathi lapho yanquma khona ukuthi iziphakamiso zomvukeli womphakathi ziyama ngisho umuntu efake amaphepha okubuyekeza.