The Absurdity of Normal: Rethinking Our Lives Amid Ecological Collapse
Giving the current ecological disaster that is our economic paradigm, isn’t it absurd to continue doing what we, as individuals, are doing in any way? The question feels almost rhetorical at this point, yet the machinery of everyday life keeps turning, as though our routines were somehow immune to the unraveling of the biosphere. Every day, the news cycle delivers new data points on our planetary decline: record-breaking heat waves, mass species extinction, collapsing coral reefs, soil degradation, plastic-choked oceans, and increasingly chaotic weather patterns. And yet, we wake up, commute, buy, consume, and scroll, as if the old world order were still intact. The absurdity is not in the question—it’s in our collective response.
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