Honesty or Extinction

Honesty or extinction. That’s the choice. Climate change isn’t a crisis outside us—it’s the mirror of everything we’ve built. Our systems, proud and precise, are designed to defend their own definitions. Governments, universities, corporations—all fluent in continuity, allergic to contradiction. They confuse repetition with stability, and stability with survival. But the planet doesn’t care for their equations. It’s speaking in heat, in drought, in flood—a language older than reason.

The way forward isn’t more control. It’s the opposite. To learn, openly, without the armor of doctrine or the comfort of dogma. To dismantle the fortresses of certainty that made this mess and rebuild something porous, adaptive, alive. If institutions could admit what they don’t know, they might remember what they’re for. Because the truth is simple: we don’t need to dominate the world. We need to rejoin it.