Certainly one thing we can do is to talk about the problem, and keep it before our attentions at all times.
Greta Thunberg has called out on humanity “to panic.” I am trying to heed her words, though it is hard to know what to do to make that panic actionable. One feels a little that helplessness of Szmul Zygielbojm upon being given the message carried by Jan Karski about the condition of European Jewry during the Second World War. Certainly one thing we can do is to talk about the problem, and keep it before our attentions at all times. It feels this supersedes literary preoccupations, and many others.
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