- “Go West, young man” (person, whatever) is less likely to happen as mobility in the US declined from about 20% of the population moving in any year during the Baby Boom, down to about 15% in the late 1990s, to 13% in the early part of 200x, and now to 9.8%.
- The number of climate disasters that made people move has grown from about 200 in 2008 to over 1500 in 2018, a roughly seven-fold increase globally in a decade.
- We lost 100 stars, don’t know why, and are realizing very big, astronomical, inexplicable (by us) things are happening around us. It’s never aliens until it is.
- A simple, though massive, reduction in greenhouses gases is possible by curtailing the inefficiencies in electricity distribution (6% in the US, over 50% in some countries.)
Pretending Not To Panic 