Environmental Apocalypse Theater

Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash

- Do you think we have an obligation to act?

Act about what?

- About big things, like climate, inequality, democracy?

No.

- Then things just get worse.

Yes.

- But you aren’t obligated to?

No. You are not obligated to do anything. But you have to understand the cost of inaction.

- But what if the cost of action is worse.

It almost never is. That’s just a story we tell ourselves when we are afraid.

- But people are afraid. You can’t deny that.

Almost everything worth having is on the other side of fear.