amidst the significant and quite painful humans-oppressing-other-humans struggles we face, we need to remember: our world is changing. and quite drastically so. and potentially quite dangerously so.

yes. climate change. (not the only environmental problem, by the way).

Starting tomorrow “A six-day international symposium on climate change and food security in South Asia will begin in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka”

and today, there is a powerful entry in a blog: “Without positive, permanent action taken RIGHT NOW, the latest estimates say we have 8 years and 4 months before climate change has reached an unstoppable point of build-up”. That’s 100 months.

I have an additional personal challenge, now — how to teach climate change next semester without encouraging my students to get on Prozac.