Climate change, Covid – our hearts ache. But a new era is possible. We can do it | Rebecca Solnit
I understand the temptation to feel that what is wrong now will be wrong forever. But anguish and hope can coexist
by Rebecca Solnit
Sep 19, 2020
4 minutes
If you’re heartsore at the quadruple crisis of the mismanaged pandemic, the resultant financial catastrophe grinding down so many people, the climate chaos dramatically evident in unprecedented fires in the west, hurricanes in the southeast, and melting ice in Greenland and the poles, and the corruption, human rights abuses, and creeping authoritarianism of the current regime, you’re not alone.
The last four years have been a long, rough road for people who care about the fate of the earth and the rights of ordinary people, and I understand the temptation to feel that what is wrong now will be wrong forever, to feel that it is too
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