"It may seem impossible to imagine," wrote Elizabeth Kolbert in Field Notes from a Catastrophe, her important book about climate change, "that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are in the process of doing". Few doubt that we are living at a time of emergency. It is understood now how quickly the earth is warming, because of the increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases arising from human activity. If it continues at its present rate, we know what our fate will be, and yet we seem set on destroying ourselves.

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It's back to school days here at the Troubletown headquarters, that means that we're getting the kid all suited up for public school grade 2. I don't know what's going on in politics and the news except for the fact that health care is, maybe, fucked? And people keep showing up to political rallies with guns? I dreamed this solution last night. What can I say? It came from my unconscious.