For a Coming Extinction

In the news: Nature crisis: Humans 'threaten 1m species with extinction'

We're killing everything else living on the planet, and that will, in turn, kill us (unless you believe we can escape our destiny by finding other planets to ruin - I don't think we'll achieve that dubious goal). At the end of the day, it's not that most people don't believe this this will happen ... they just don't give a damn.

This is why we Dems can't just elect what for some is a familiar feel-good candidate like Biden. We need someone who will do the radical things necessary to save what's left of our ecosystem. Given human nature, I doubt this will happen, though.

Reminds me of a poem ...

For a Coming Extinction - W.S. Merwin

Gray whale
Now that we are sending you to The End
That great god
Tell him
That we who follow you invented forgiveness
And forgive nothing

I write as though you could understand
And I could say it
One must always pretend something
Among the dying
When you have left the seas nodding on their stalks
Empty of you
Tell him that we were made
On another day

The bewilderment will diminish like an echo
Winding along your inner mountains
Unheard by us
And find its way out
Leaving behind it the future
Dead
And ours

When you will not see again
The whale calves trying the light
Consider what you will find in the black garden
And its court
The sea cows the Great Auks the gorillas
The irreplaceable hosts ranged countless
And foreordaining as stars
Our sacrifices

Join your word to theirs
Tell him
That it is we who are important