1/ Deciding to downplay the terrifying reality of ecological & climate catastrophe is one of the greatest information crimes of history.

That the public are not being allowed to grasp the true nature of ecosystem collapse and abrupt climate change is a terrible wrong.

However,

2/ fully informing people of the full range of utter disasters now occurring in the oceans, the rainforests, and the Arctic, though obviously the right thing to do, can lead to a range of reactions: despair, indifference, denial, shock, determination to act. But this should not

3/ prevent us explaining the scientific reality of extinction, feedbacks, habitat destruction, plastic and chemical pollution, pandemics, etc. It is so utterly wrong that people are being deliberately kept in the dark by those with power and knowledge, that it is vital we somehow

4/ counter broken information systems like state/corporate media & state/private education in whatever ways we can.

When the truth of ecological calamity becomes clear to all in the coming decades, people will probably have similar reactions as now, somewhere on the spectrum of

5/ despair, indifference, motivation/determination. What counts is that only a full understanding of the immediate, unique, and profound emergency that we face will lead people to push for appropriately radical emergency action to try to save wildlife, plants and humanity. And it

6/ bears repeating: it is a deep moral wrong that governments, corporations, militaries, media and schools are not explaining the scientific reality of 1.5- 4.5°C global warming, and the impacts of this along with destructive industrial agriculture, deep-sea trawling, mining, and

7/ all the other destructive activites occurring in this monstrously polluting overconsumption economy.

"But Ben, what can we do?"

Keep informing every person you know/meet. Keep supporting anything which might lead to a new postgrowth economy, justice, an end to mass poverty.

8/ It will always be worth doing something to improve society or simply to help others around you. Ideas:

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1219390978911543297?s=20

If you have soil, why not grow your own food to feed yourself and share with others? Food systems will come under increasingly extreme pressure now.