To be fair, these things are so complex and coming at us nearly non-stop that it's hard to actually process them. If only it were as simple as a giant meteor hu

To be fair, these things are so complex and coming at us nearly non-stop that it's hard to actually process them. If only it were as simple as a giant meteor hurling towards us. Instead we get well intentioned scientific journalism that outlines extremely intricate processes with little actionable information. My hypothesis is that there's such an overwhelming noise to signal ratio that most of us can't meaningfully process it. Just this week, I've seen this article, grave news of the accelerated melt of the Thwaites glacier, a continued and alarming decline of insect biomass across the globe, more harrowing revelations about the presence of microplastics in every ecological niche... Frankly, it's mentally exhausting. I have young relatives that I worry about, with apparently no meaningful action that I could take. I'm curious if you have ideas for what we could possibly do. The status quo seems so unshakable, I fear that all of these "doomer" scenarios are so complex that we'll never meaningfully be able to respond to them.