Everything won't be OK

When asked if there world is getting worse, someone responds, "I don't think things are worse; it's that now, with technology, we have the ability to see what has always existed."

This is correct to a certain extent - some things aren't new. The police killing people, for example. Sexual assualt and domestic violence. Racism and various other "-isms."

Climate change - and the very real, very scary changes taking place right now - is something new.

Everything won't be OK. Michael was haunted by this understanding: "The bad times they will begin, and from that point everything moves very quickly. You know, this social structure can't bear the stress of multiple crises. Opportunistic diseases, anarchy, martial law, the tipping point. And this isn't in some like distant future. You will live to see this."

Gabrial Winant understands it too. '“That,” my mom said slowly, “is so heavy.”'

Richard Seymour asks us, correctly, to "consider the end of the world."