We cannot solve the climate crisis so long as we are indifferent to the plight of the poorest people on the planet, who suffer the consequences of the affluence of the developed world. Our bodies are too warm, and our hearts are too cold. We need to seek an equilibrium.

An Angel of the Lord that stands in the way of the ego so as to obstruct it will appear to the ego to be a demon.

You can go to the store and pick up a quart of milk. That does not happen by itself. You can be 100% sure that a number of Trump voters had a hand in making that possible; it might have been a dairy farmer or a truck driver or a store clerk, but this little miracle involved them.

During the Cold War, Bertrand Russell sought to ban the bomb; “Better red than dead” was the slogan. Today, MAGA is prepared to accept economic hardship from Trump’s inflationary tariffs. You might say that they believe “Better broke than woke.”