Politics as usual: the normalcy of our planetary destruction

The issue that should dwarf everything in sight today, planetary climate destruction, is normalized
Salon (originally in TomDispatch) Links aplenty.

Intro:

More and more, we look into our screens and gizmos. And this helps us — almost as if they were made for that purpose — not to think about the weather outside. Kept busy “curating” our own lives, we are regularly spared evidence of the coming catastrophe.

Long ago, in a memorable poem, Robert Frost guessed that there was a human need to bring the moods of the world into conformity with our moods:

Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there never be curtain drawn
Between you and me.

He says he has seen the “head” of the tree “taken and tossed” in rough weather, as his own head was “taken and swept” by a dream. This resemblance between the world and himself somehow added to his interest in life:

That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her,
Your head so much concerned with outer,
Mine with inner, weather.

This sense of the human place in the fabric of nature — that there may be a deep connection between inner and outer weather — is starting to seem a thing of the past.

Can we still have inner weather when the outer weather changes so regularly and drastically? When 500 tornadoes rip through the country from Kansas to Pennsylvania in a matter of weeks? Or when 875,000 California acres burn down in the course of a summer? Rather than hear the message, we look into our smartphones or at our computer screens whose backgrounds may include breathtakingly lovely pictures of the planet — photos that show how beautiful a place it has been. As if we could have this Earth forever in reach, as if we could preserve it with a password or, by logging off, exchange it for another as lovely.

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..Carrion. Is it Us, yet?

An allegory not far from this hippocampus during this period of accelerating devolution on all Scales:

[in descending order]

'Capacities' to combine logic + Sweet-Reason towards sane analysis /thence: Action.
Capabilities to argue from facts + interpretations towards some ..plausible resolution
Willingness actually to think on these
Experience, historical knowledge to attempt to Scale such musings, postulates er, Ideas
Experience of ..anything beyond the jejune infotainment, now a bottomless ocean of Distractions 24/7
.
The WIll to employ above--at whatever one's overall Soucience--to some Purpose
.
.
The capability of Thinking rigorously, At All?

Methinks that it's a long slog from the er 'Base' level above ..before there can be anything resembling the Steps-above. Is it possible even, to imagine.. any confluence of world-wide Tribes of the planetary population? as might: actually effect a Sane Rsponse to planetary matters from such a vox populi now facing:
Massive Alteration of all aims, $$$-matters, 'jobs'+housing + food distribution:

That is, an at-least Plurality sufficient to dealing with the SCALE of priorities uttery-Necessary even to 'keep the suffering just-bearable as' ...
Tipping Points of inevitable-kind loom. while most humans are hardly a "one small step for a Mensch"-away from The Caves?
[Rhetorical Question, alas]

Perhaps Piet Hein's Grook-with-sketch ..says it better than presumptuous profundity of mouth-noises:

If the Universe didn't exist
It wouldn't be missed

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Carrion; we're a Dwarf- Drumpf-tossing away from -_∞
While: NOBODY--ere recent years--ever even i m a g i n e d that, ..because-we-Could: We Would Destroy Our Nest ... fecklessly.