Yesterday, I shared an exciting possibility that a voice like Dr. Jem Bendell might join in the acknowledgement that we are poisoning the Earth's ability to support human civilization. 

Today .... I received a message from his assistant that he would not join and offered no explanation despite the fact that this petition seems to overlap completely with Dr. Bendell's work. 

His assistant wrote about Dr. Bendell's "he is rarely open to new collaborations these days".  

I'm not a mind reader and I had no audience with Dr. Bendell so I can't speak factually to to his rationale for rejection.

What I can say is this ..... there is a profitable market for the truth and some purveyors of likely doom like Dr. Bendell have done very well for themselves in the short-term and positioned themselves as the virtuous "good guys" in advance of the coming war which will be driven by ecological overshoot. 

But the willingness to go to the mat and fight for the survival of our children is not a profitable venture. Wars have always involved leaders willing to stick their necks out and lead the charge. That's always been a high-risk, low reward proposition and we are all prone to "bystander effect" and the hope that someone else will take the risk and lead the charge. 

Being a climate crusader reveals a lot of uncomfortable truth about human nature. The belief that humans are noble creatures who will sacrifice themselves for the benefit of our children is demonstrated to be largely myth. Maslow's Hierarchy of Need says nothing about a need to protect our children. The Ten Commandment is also silent about fidelity to children and democratic institutions provide no representation for young people and future generations. 

It's a difficult time to be alive. To observe the vanishing of the struggle for a better world and our children's well being. I see so many people who have given up or immerse themselves in distraction to avoid the truth which gets more ominous every day. 

I have long let go of the clinging to a good outcome. But letting go of the inclination to even try is not something that my body can seem to accept. 

There is a saying that its always darkest before the dawn. I have an illogical faith that the dawn will arrive eventually and that people will mobilize to save a future in which life goes on. 

Time to find something fun to do. Perhap some music and dance. 

Peace,

Rich