it's happening on our watch

questions that haunt me -

have my words and actions contributed to this?

am I exacerbating this further with my words and actions?

can I help solve this with my words and actions?

am I doing everything I can, anything at all within my sphere of influence, to drive action on this?

will help, wherever it comes from, come soon enough?

will this crisis traumatise me more than the last one, and hopefully inure me from the next one and the one after that?

will this ever end? does that future exist? in which direction?

if we can't even solve the barest bottomest rung of Maslow's Pyramid, how dare we talk about becoming Kardashev-scale civilizations?