unsustainable, a rant

I don’t particularly go out of my way to read the news, the bad ones have a way of seeping into my life anyway, with or without my permission,

recently however, I’ve developed a habit of playing The Daily (New York Times) and Today Explained (Vox) podcasts during my runs,

this unrelenting heatwave is, unsurprisingly, an ample topic of conversation at the moment,
cementing strongly held believes, most of us have, that we are, indeed, fucking up this planet,

one of the people being interviewed by Vox, was this “john,” in his early 40s, from LA, living in an area that restricted him from watering his lawn for more than however many minutes a day, mkay… sounds reasonable?

“they will remove me from my house before I stop watering my lawn. I didn’t cause the heatwave, why should I have to pay for it”

I’m sorry, what?

now, I don’t have a habit of getting riled up by people holding opposing views to mine,

but clearly this aggressively mediocre, grown ass man was clinging on to unintelligence a little more stubbornly than most…

I understand that it can be difficult to accept your way of living as being unsustainable,

I understand that change is hard,

I even understand wanting to preserve your social status as an alpha male capable of holding a hose above grass for a few minutes a day,

we all want to be able to enjoy life without burden, but this is not burger king, you can’t have it your way,

things are bad,
things will continue to be bad,
but if we do the absolute bare minimum, things may be a little less bad,

I am not asking you to understand this, merely to accept it as a fact,

even now, after all the ups and downs, we are right where we started,
dangerously close to the end of the book.

it takes a lot of different people to make a world, and only one to end it.

I’ll see you tomorrow(?)

today is day 208 of the year, there are 157 days remaining of 2022.