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For all the certainty with which humanity sets its course

and seizes opportunities where it can…

We rarely contemplate our destination.

Allowing far too often…

For tendencies of mankind’s impulses to push us forward

Fulfilling the immediate needs

Of safety and security

Comfort and greed

The next steps taken by humanity

far too often are in reaction to where the last steps have left us standing

As if we have no destination in mind.

When seen from afar the course of humanity…

Often looks more like the drunken stagger of an infant

than the steady steps of a progressing society

And when we have no destination in mind…

We choose one by default.

And so…

This world of changing climate… is the destination we have chosen

Melting ice caps… is the destination we have chosen

RIsing sea waters… is the destination we have chosen

Flooded cities… is the destination we have chosen.

Death of the coral reefs,

the source of half the oxygen we breathe… is the destination

Agricultural drought and the ensuing famine… is the destination

Extreme weather events, of all sorts, affecting everywhere…

is the destination we have chosen by not choosing