WE ALL LOSE: I (ALMOST) GIVE UP!

WE ALL LOSE: I (Almost) GIVE UP!
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            You've heard the latest news. An international conference on Climate Change, conducted by the United Nations, has just concluded (October, 2018). Nothing new or unexpected in the huge report but for the word that things are much worse than thought, that we have only ten years in which to turn the world around. If we as a species do NOT change our way of living, we are collectively doomed to an Earth in crisis in more ways than we can imagine.
             It rarely made the front page in most publications. We all care. But we don't, really, enough, at least, to become personally part of any change or solution. Churches will continue to talk, and pray, and believe. Governments will do what they are allowed to do, as long as they can be re-elected. Most of us won't vote GREEN until we're starving. We'll do anything but change our lives.
             I understand. If the Nazis were invading, we'd be at the front lines. If a flu were threatening us, we'd fund research and get inoculated. We're involved with loving those around us and dealing with the challenges of today and  tomorrow, and trying to hold on to our stuff. That's what we've been taught to do. We've learned our lessons well. We're basically good folks, doing the best we can. It's simply not in our DNA to change our lives in order to prepare for a crisis that we can't imagine or see.
              So, I give up. I'll try to not waste my time urging others to live in a way that might change the future. There's no hope anyway, for the climate won't change for the better unless there is no coal burned and very little carbon fuels of any kind. This won't happen. India and China alone are increasing their use of these fuels more than we are decreasing them. We are doomed to crisis.
               I'm left with the question of what to do now and here. How can I live to be the most happy, healthy and comfortable in the most ways? It just so happens that the answer to that most immediate question is the same as if I were asking how I would live in order to 'save the world': Living in a shared and sharing community. In the coming crisis and here and now, learning to share with others is the obvious best way to survive and even thrive. Out of simply selfish motives, then, Judy and I are striving to talk and share to any and all, of how easy and sensible it is to share our lives with others. We are giving and offering my book DARE TO SHARE as a primer, a starter if you will, to any and all who would consider this most basic notion, knowing how counter-culture it is. We've had it hammered into our thick skulls for generations now that 'success' is dying alone in the biggest house possible, with the most toys in the three-car garage. We know we'll be more happy, secure and fearless when sharing with others, no matter what the future holds. I guess that's enough.