5. This Can't Be Happening | George Monbiot
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Friends,
I’m reading everything I can on climate emergency this year. The pandemic has given me a massive wake up call in terms of how I wish to spend the rest of my life and with whom (definitely not working in industries directly responsible for destroying the planet as a starter). George Monbiot writes forth Guardian, the UK’s most honest newspaper on the disaster we’ve created with climate.
Here’s George’s thought provoking article from March 2020.
“I have tried to keep my eco-anxiety at bay, to box it into my working life. But every month this becomes more difficult. The rising sense of panic I feel is entirely rational; we should all be feeling it. But we can't live with it through every hour of every day.”
“History shows that attacks on general freedoms often begin with an attack on the freedom of a minority. It teaches us that we should never allow a government to divide and rule. An attack on one is an attack on all.”
“Defending the planet means changing the world.”
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