We ought to be building into our political process (right fucking now!) mechanisms of graceful retreat; ways of gently relocating people who are forced to abandon places that are no longer inhabitable for such reasons as sea level rise, drought, or deadly heat and humidity. Otherwise we'll end up with mobs of climate change refugees shooting at one another until nothing good is left.

This sort of social collapse seems to be happening now in so many places around the world.

I'm not certain the U.S.A. as it exists today is capable of this kind of cooperative behavior.

hi tech and energy efficient. if we build it, they will come.
but you are prolly right. we wont build it until it is too late. then it will be built by capitalists, with little thought to how we got into this pickle.

After the devastating tornado they came back bolder and greener than ever
The people pulled together to make it happen too

you have to at least start from the premise that there is something going on. how the human mind works.
let's hope more of those directly affected see the same light. and shine it for the rest of us.

I don't have time to look it up right now, (ripping up flooring to replace it and taking a breather to take some meds and came here to see what I was missing but I'm sure there are many links

Apparently, humans have always been a violent species. We seem to behave much more like Pan troglodytes than Pan paniscus, as much as we hippies wanted everyone to be more like bonobos.

but, of course, it was our violent nature that lifted us up the evolutionary ladder.
and it has served us well. our only hope is to evolve.

Oh well.

its not that we cant behave this way. i think there are just too many kids who dont get a chance to reach their full human potential. if every pregnant woman was just well fed, and lived in a peaceful home, we would raise peaceful children.
end domestic violence, and we will bloom as a species.

Evolution just doesn't have a single direction is all.

and i also know that i am right about individual development, and ending domestic violence, tho impossible to do completely, would bring about a new world.

Science will win out every time.