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diff --git a/content/entry/give-up-hope-take-action.md b/content/entry/give-up-hope-take-action.md index 12c293f..08ec061 100644 --- a/content/entry/give-up-hope-take-action.md +++ b/content/entry/give-up-hope-take-action.md @@ -2,15 +2,14 @@ title: "Give Up Hope. Take Action." date: 2022-10-13T00:00:00 draft: false -makerefs: false --- -Humanity is in dire circumstances right now. We're at something of a precipice. We face the threats of nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, global heating[1], superbugs, ecological destruction, resource exhaustion, overpopulation, mass surveillance, authoritarianism, and much more. +Humanity is in dire circumstances right now. We're at something of a precipice. We face the threats of nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, [global heating](/glossary), superbugs, ecological destruction, resource exhaustion, overpopulation, mass surveillance, authoritarianism, and much more. -Cory Doctorow, writer, blogger, and activist, wrote an article titled "The Swerve"[2]. I recommend everybody read it because it's a very accurate analogy for our situation, at least in terms of global heating. +Cory Doctorow, writer, blogger, and activist, wrote an article titled "[The Swerve](https://doctorow.medium.com/the-swerve-ace9a1c270c1)". I recommend everybody read it because it's a very accurate analogy for our situation, at least in terms of global heating. Most people are living in a fantasy land either denying these facts because they don't want them to be true, accepting them but acting as if they're not true, or just saying "c'est la vie" and making glib jokes as a coping mechanism, but none of that makes it go away. -My attitude towards the current state of things is similar to that of the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion[3], Clare Farrell: +My attitude towards the current state of things is similar to that of the co-founder of [Extinction Rebellion](https://rebellion.global/), Clare Farrell: > "Hope for me feels like the opposite of admitting that you have to do it. ‘I hope someone else will fix it.’ That’s a disaster. Hope dies and action begins." - Clare Farrell @@ -27,9 +26,3 @@ In my past entries, I tried to be hopeful because I thought it was important not There's nobody coming to save the day unless it's you. So what are you waiting on? Are you gonna try to do something about it, or are you just going to passively read the bad news as your world slowly falls apart? What will it be? - - -Link(s): -[1: Glossary: global heating](/glossary) -[2: The Swerve](https://doctorow.medium.com/the-swerve-ace9a1c270c1) -[3: Extinction Rebellion](https://rebellion.global/) |