I stepped out last night for a walk in the lingering evening light of March. A gentle rain fell from clouds above and puddled on the ground, still partially frozen from winter. In somnolent leafless trees of my neighbourhood, birds chattered in song to each other.
Yeah. Here we are. Fighting again for everything those before us fought for - and thought they'd won. Plus for the first time fighting for an anthropocene that allows for human dignity as our species adjusts to a changing climate that could make all or large parts of our planet uninhabitable. And the most powerful and defiant offspring of human intelligence - capitalism and artificial intelligence - will happily fight against us. They were meant to be our tools but now they are our gods.
Yeah. Here we are. Fighting again for everything those before us fought for - and thought they'd won. Plus for the first time fighting for an anthropocene that allows for human dignity as our species adjusts to a changing climate that could make all or large parts of our planet uninhabitable. And the most powerful and defiant offspring of human intelligence - capitalism and artificial intelligence - will happily fight against us. They were meant to be our tools but now they are our gods.
I share your fear.