4 Comments

Nice piece. Interestingly you left out greed. Greed is what undoes us. You can’t have a job that pays a living wage — and owls. It’s either or. Dividing us while they chortle to the bank.

Expand full comment

Thanks, Diane! Those binaries sure are useful for fulfilling an us-and-them narrative.

Expand full comment

Another great case for optimism is Hans Rosling’s Factfulness. Turns out the world is steadily getting better if you look at the facts!

Expand full comment

Vultures are beautiful, majestic, and their flight is more sensual than a Bald Eagle, but not as sexy as a Golden Eagle, endangered because we cut and build and grow, though I have seen two up here; only bird who can take out a wolverine.

Expand full comment