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a major piece of the Antarctic ice sheet
recently melted and fell into the sea
the planet is in profound trouble
environmental organizations keep trying
to get us to notice a few people care a
lot but strangely and shamefully most
people are much more concerned with
other lesser things in an average week
worldwide there are nearly a million
articles about Taylor Swift and many of
them are focused on her
legs and there are just 30,000 articles
about those Antarctic Ice Sheets Swift's
legs are lovely in ways that seem to
defy description somehow they look
ordinary yet perfect they're long yet
not freakish they seem unbowed by their
implausible length both utterly firm and
yet yielding and soft people who take
global warming seriously tend to get
apoplectic at this point they're not
wrong while delightful Taylor Swift's
legs are of zero significance in
comparison with the fate of the planet
nobody should profit from rising
temperatures Seas flooding human
suffering poverty caused by the burning
of fossil fuels
do you think the cats know that you're
Taylor
Swift there was a point where Meredith
um she was the first cat that I got and
she got I post pictures of her on
Instagram and stuff and she was a really
beautiful kitten um so she became named
like the year-end top celebrity pet I
think on some level she knew because she
changed after that she
started but getting angry at our
fascination with the thighs of a singer
is counterproductive in a democracy we
cannot be collectively dragged into
being more responsible through guilt and
for a very simple reason we don't have
to pay attention if those who care about
the Arctic melt are going to get angry
bitter and Stern they'll just be ignored
we're putting carbon dioxide in the air
at a prodigious rate and the world's
getting warmer and you can know this by
looking at the neutrons in the ice we
are inducing a sick
mass extinction event kind of by
accident the problem is we really do
need to do something about that ice but
the starting point has to be Indulgence
towards the ways our minds work we're
interested in Taylor Swift's legs not
because we're evil but because our minds
are wired up in unhelpful ways if people
are going to be interested on mass in
the defrosting poles we need to take our
fragilities on board and therefore get
serious very serious about trying to to
make important news not just important
but also beguiling almost as tempting to
hear about as Tay's
legs the urge to nag is very
understandable the problem is it's never
effective it will work for a small
number of people but for most of us it's
just off-putting we instinctively resent
being told that we're stupid and
heartless when we're just harassed we're
already doing our best to be decent
people there are so many serious things
we need Collective persuading about to
date high-minded people have largely
attempted to motivate people by guilt
they need in the future to learn to
charm us into
goodness standing in a nice dress
staring at the sunset babe red lips and
Rosy Cheeks say
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