The fight of our lives

We lie down in the face of a crisis. Generally, we do. This is what happens when large-scale incompetence, criminality, or environmental tragedies occur. They have a way of shrinking and drying our fighting spirits, making us feel that we cannot possibly do anything to make a dent. Shrunken, we see the futility of standing up and acting to change things for the better. In that reduced state, our reasoning gets muted and we hear it only whispering at best to our own defeated selves.

But in the human tradition, there are voices that persist across history to remind us what is it about the nature of being human that can save us from ourselves. Among our best bets are the voices from science.

Psychologists have also come together full force to lay out for us the effects of the climate crisis on our mental health. They have also agreed that this will bear on what we have to overcome in ourselves to effectively make a difference in our lives now and in our children's.