Ed Cockrell
1 min readAug 17, 2022

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The science bits of your article are informative and bracing. However, the disparaging commentary about activism, protests, ineffective emoting, and so on seem oddly at odds with the fact-based dire projections of what humankind is expected to endure for the next fifty years and beyond. I personally don’t mind people having a cry or a rant or sounding an alarm over the inevitable horrors that nature has programmed in counterpoint to human stupidity and greed. And I get your point that collapse is unavoidable (which is scarily similar to doom) so it’s best not to worry and to just stay alert for when to duck and cover. But in the meantime, I also accept that some people around me will be shouting of climate apocalypse as they cope with doom by doing things like recycling. And others who are more technologically adept will be desperately looking for the tweaks and the fixes for sustainable production of energy. But the bottom line is that each of us, when faced with gobsmacking turmoil, will live or die in our own way.

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Ed Cockrell
Ed Cockrell

Written by Ed Cockrell

A North Carolinian by birth and life experience with some USMC thrown in. Realistic about life and death, but essentially a pragmatic optimist. Life will be.

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