Mushroom Revival
I have to admit, I needed a bit of a revival. I read the New York Times Magazine article by Nathaniel Rich on climate change and it left me deflated. The story is important (called Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change), but it doesn't offer any reason for hope. It completely convinced me that politics will never address this issue.
My take-away is that we need to identify and follow the leaders who are pointing in the right direction. It's up to us. And it's easy to feel surrounded by folks who just don't care about reducing their contribution to this time of mass extinction on our planet. At this point, making decisions based on environmental impact in one's life and business is swimming up stream. Our western culture still has the backwards notion that money and status is more important than addressing the most pressing issues for our environment that we live within and that our future generations will inhabit.
So I was sort of wallowing in a depression around the inability of humans to adapt. But the mushrooms can! I've just returned from the Telluride Mushroom Festival. What the mushrooms can do is amazing. (read this blog post)
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