Desperate

Things should be better
Desperately so—
We are running it into the ground
We should be better
Desperately so—
Yet we can’t help ourselves
How do we pivot?
How do we break this downward spiral?

A new year.
A new beginning?

Desperately needed
Desperately so—

Happy happy joy joy

What I’m Reading:

“Even if its extremes are ultimately eclipsed, as seems inevitable, 2023 will mark a point when humanity crossed into a new climate era — an age of ‘global boiling,’ as United Nations Secretary General António Guterres called it. The year included the hottest single day on record (July 6) and the hottest ever month (July), not to mention the hottest June, the hottest August, the hottest September, the hottest October, the hottest November, and probably the hottest December. It included a day, Nov. 17, when global temperatures, for the first time ever, reached 2 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial levels.

Discomfort, destruction, and death are the legacy of those records.”

— Chico Harlan / “The climate future arrived in 2023. It left scars across the planet” / The Washington Post