Greetings. I cried unexpectedly three times last week. And I'm really tired. I'm just back from New York,

but I want to talk about my experience because it has much larger implications for what I might refer to as the shadow of

the carbon pulse or the shadow of the superorganism.

First time I cried is I had to put down my 14-year-old Coonhount, Maisie, last week.

I knew it was coming. She had she was going downhill uh but when we put

her down she was just the sweetest girl and all the memories of the last 14 years uh her as my

friend as part of my family uh came flooding back yeah, I cried, which is appropriate. Dogs are

family. The next time was in New York last week for Climate Week. I went to a movie screening

of a movie called Future Council, which is eight 12-year-old children from around the world, went to talk

to a bunch of corporate leaders about climate change and the environment and the future, and

it was kind of loosely based.

The monster in the movie was called Groff, which was loosely based on the economic superorganism. And something about the way that 12-year-old children can unlock one's heart and speak the truth that adults feel but can't articulate,

opened up something in me and I welled up at the United Nations showing.

The third time was at the inaugural Planetary Health Check meeting

announced by the Planetary Guardians and Mampela Rampelli was there and Carlos No Nobri, and Christina Figueras, and all kinds of people talking about, and Johann Rockstrom let it off.

They all talked about how our planetary health check is leaving the stability of the Anthropocene.

And it's very precarious.

Positive feedbacks, loom, the Amazon forest, turning to Savannah, climate, oceans, and how this

is all critical to save humans and our future society and civilization.

And at the end, Jane Goodall spoke.

I'd never seen her in person before.

And she's like everything that was said was so important,

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