DScott Carpenter

Unfortunately, I was unaware of the book until the documentary on HBO. Proof of the power of word and poetry to strip away the cultural armor of complicity. Everyone in our western culture needs to see this, remembering that anger and denial are stages before acceptance. With climate change bringing instability for all (climate change has no use for cultural boundaries such as race), our scared brute selves will become more and more brutal in our thrashing out in fear. My hope is that if we can see that we have evolved beyond our brute selves, then bond together to heal and to create. Otherwise we are all going to continue to bludgeon each other to death until our species have destroyed everything.