Let me draw you a picture

 Today I’m going to let you draw your own conclusions and hope, unrealistically, for the best.

Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find

planetary boundaries over time

Meanwhile, in our nation and it's capital:

• Why are Republicans launching Biden impeachment inquiry and what’s next?


• What Republicans are doing to Wisconsin is a warning sign to all Americans


• Democrats need to realize that there is no alternative to Biden – and buck up

Fortunately, there’s also:

• Doughnut Economics and DEAL


• Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy

Plus, many other sane and credible organizations working to help the world continue to be a place where humans can both survive and thrive. The choice is ours, for now.

On the Fifth Day

by Jane Hirshfield

On the fifth day
the scientists who studied the rivers
were forbidden to speak
or to study the rivers.

The scientists who studied the air
were told not to speak of the air,
and the ones who worked for the farmers
were silenced,
and the ones who worked for the bees.

Someone, from deep in the Badlands,
began posting facts.

The facts were told not to speak
and were taken away.
The facts, surprised to be taken, were silent.

Now it was only the rivers
that spoke of the rivers,
and only the wind that spoke of its bees,

while the unpausing factual buds of the fruit trees
continued to move toward their fruit.

The silence spoke loudly of silence,
and the rivers kept speaking
of rivers, of boulders and air.

Bound to gravity, earless and tongueless,
the untested rivers kept speaking.

Bus drivers, shelf stockers,
code writers, machinists, accountants,
lab techs, cellists kept speaking.

They spoke, the fifth day,
of silence.

—2017

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