Morgan Freeman was recently on The View to discuss and promote his new Netflix series, Life on Our Planet (I Posted the Trailer at the end of the diary). Life on our planet tells the story of evolution from the age of the dinos to today. He looked them in the eye after greetings ended per Entertainment; he looked them "dead in the eye and told them the apocalypse is coming."
Freeman has been an activist for wildlife and their habitat and a climate warrior for decades. Like many of us in the climate movement, we have repeatedly experienced the five stages of grief. We see his pain when he speaks.
Those who believe we are unlikely to survive the consequences of anthropogenic global warming should feel that we are not alone in a world that does not see what we see, while the wise and soothing voice Of Morgan Freeman educates on the unspeakable.
There is nothing wrong with us, no reason to judge or demean us as we all must go through the grieving process at some point. Some of us get there sooner than others. All of us just happen to be alive at this moment in time as catastrophe unfolds.
"I am one of those people who's very interested in this subject, life on the planet. You understand that, today, life on the planet is in a little bit of trouble, and we're the cause of it," he said, referencing climate change. "There have been, if I remember correctly, six extinction-level events on the planet since life began. Six times, large, large portions of life — not human life, we're talking just life — gone, destroyed. We're headed for another one. Scientists have said if we don't hurry up and change our ways, there's going to be a cataclysmic event that will wipe many of us off the face of the earth."
Edit: I unpublished this diary in the morning as two diaries on climate had just been posted, and I did not want to distract from them.
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