The Climate Crisis and the Will To Live
Our “will to live” is strong! It has helped many to overcome huge obstacles: Ask anyone who has lived through a battle with disease, has overcome massive injury, has gone through a major surgery, or has dealt with emotional trauma. Many of those who have courageously battled serious disease can tell you that the will to live is even stronger than hope. Even when hope is gone, the will to live endures. Also, our “will to live” can counter fear. It can deal with that fear obstacle even when the fearful facts that we face are about the very real threat of the climate crisis, which threatens to end all of humanity, and which threatens to do so through a period of massive, human suffering at an unimaginable scale. Our will to live can counter even that fear. Our will to live is strong enough to face even that crisis. In fact, it wants to face that crisis… … because facing that crisis is one of the things we need to do to continue to live. In the climate crisis,