This week:
For the next few weeks, I’m rewriting and sharing a selection of essays I wrote in 2020 and 2021, so about two hundred years ago. I think they’re more relevant than ever — I can’t wait to hear what you think.
This week: What would you say you do here? (Originally published July 2020, updated February 2023)
Why do we exist?
After a hundred years of progress, humanity faces stress tests unlike any we’ve faced before, and all at once.
The good news: Your company can help rewrite the future.
Here's What You Can Do:
• ⚡️ The death toll in Turkey and Syria continues to rise. Relief agencies are having a hell of a time, but you can donate to the Syrian American Medical Society (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiVkJpdOaqAqZzt8HuNApFRK3gg5Ir7X8inCu30J9r32qdMBc6qa9g72TCh4saPbl9jjYmt_ZrmcDhPd5HQGfjmAvRNskrq8alvUZd3DhWr4i/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h13/xaop_q_JMNn5wUyWXvB7HCYYjpEPRmXsXtA1p6id_Ik), Doctors Without Borders (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/M5KOcerzxQUFSv1WLdGwlPCa7TQQX-odTgK7wpKrkTmGWI-Vju-AbgiznXkM0-A8mLmnpzdPxaw92NnllAU5h-orpKhJ24Hhr8RhPpPyAPDFlJRjgJHE4XOU_BEjwa-0/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h14/OnkTafU4h42p2SnQNFDROYN64cz3RJo0DQUq8m0Nax8), and World Central Kitchen (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/M5KOcerzxQUFSv1WLdGwlN0QoQ4X90Bf5EXFOtISrRnz3txuWG0iJJvjzhD3KdyHBA8hvUtmniwHJT8j1xBOUA/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h15/k2rzlElxrL1I5T0xE36syJKi5RduEYGDjn78jV5DujY).
• ⚡️ There’s never been a better time for educators to bring climate crisis solutions into the classroom, and no better tool than the All We Can Save Project (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiZ9JqNQ0sH73WfmK0FIrlBovbqgn_CWH7uwUtMafQ8_5siynfxGyR4L0gAN4SljRQQ/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h16/as2PG2kd_G0nL23bd4h-nDTRsHMqU5zUv9mEEv5FsGg).
• ⚡️ Renter? Landlord? Either way you can find out how to green your building with BlocPower (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/FFlQiBe9XTLQxJSOy6Aupo44RajuDEVVcjJsVGNWIOAiVDMbaSq5U2Dem7qtqAPE/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h17/8_u0VHv-ul_5yxA4r1idfK5-Kn_dSFYO6ZXs8wX5qkU).
• ⚡️ Clean up the air in your town with Mom’s Clean Air Force (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiVyBuO52TI4lYaV9gdymTUAKmf5INs4E0uOsoVLpakm2/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h18/eiNyq1DV_jwFoWHk6IOKVmciKk1Eb7KBH3a36kp3bgw).
• ⚡️ Every boob is different, so help recruit more women to breast cancer studies (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiSiMVvcMwM2x2ADjIZ4Nq8OMq9tKX-Nn1oXLMZLq6elRImajnHgJ6IoitmojYyPA3wFrsDUw1o5BfKN95BWygig/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h19/nCDiLVjA3HdC8gNLpy4ieiGmToG_qJrj-VbHemuIG7s)with WISDOM.
News Roundup
Health & Medicine
• Please read this David Brooks piece on friendship and depression (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiZGvgG6nunhttBw5MFpQ3OOmPLiG3IzMpByeTx-4p2GmPo1T5Fxdjp59nFYbmwOiIEOuMb5an-fzNKsohePHE9h0p2mfO5Zfw2--9upSIegO/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h25/4jzc17Kp3M5_e_yHIut1ss95JyfrhMTyvX20B3EndDQ)
• Sure, yes, electric cars can clean up the air, (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iie6gUcLrzApdD19Mr_r9gOSl1ZgME_i6e7-f1akZdSjD37H0tGCMd4K67V_woUb2JorbEuV-DKLx4YJB6uRJJRO4s6BuE3teIBAlCGrOeRincsCtXFicgMPs5950ppuPVWES8oT7D1wrIw_mv-4Cpog/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h26/y51IGtKJEURsBbJsX8x54U_PzKjqk3HjpZO4rYad8Ws) but please also way fewer cars
• A quarter million US students haven’t returned to school since the early pandemic. Where the hell are they? (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/koBtmbDJ2Zu0FrWV2882DMlNSKEHrMHoZi1DlXw_OJw_mtFKzoKhhEy4aSOInuCWATR7-LoqpTJaekQQ19Zm9-nIJFWXYp0Xth-dJtP-6gJMLb6j-Giq1n6Yn9FV9WirXYGG6KUYORA9Od_fpIfO037dMbCq4rWlkdlet4qMklE/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h27/N7p8EGroA5BgzgYyH7fxT8HmyD2WI_2s8gE0p8nBJzs)
• Workers fighting America’s overdose crisis (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiZGvgG6nunhttBw5MFpQ3OPa-JNXlbeijWbIbC9kdsKIAoY-bV54ICsH62t6OaZQZJDjOYSgoFfpy_ib_oKwTbqRI6YIfOp9x-qNtHrByOD5/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h28/Jmy-pzPb3CkfbMEmAQVp75faRZhacYUP5udWg53RBgg) need much more help
• Yelp is coming for (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiWI5ZZO7AmilpgPBqj0CmdGIZsB8mpNZgS8Yp7zXNw8vuS7sXDspW6z8CwHrGeS1R8BpYulP60jvzg7DyMoXjVlUoUXTQ312OavnkjX_aIO5/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h29/GvfpE2AjTdu9eXf8Gxisl9s2ZzbLxUAQYl5Xc8pBizY)“crisis pregnancy centers” and the GOP is not pleased (this is exactly what I mean in the essay above)
Climate
• Shell’s board of directors were sued (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiZ2vO-7-urbMCxqAQT-PKrJZucj-BrcI9VRbMo_QhZ-W5_h7nVizr0C2asW6NloSuCAkqYzD8Pf0tEtiC97NaPIR4Jr98oh0iJTIm5s-CB2gj59FF5H7RzQod1nbFkEsIbW5721g3h8DlQZwe40MM5I/3tl/8xYDESuTR6uuPBTqgC75IQ/h30/KGqUvnU-WX93B2LTMd2W7IdClvb3k5oR6TNLmVynxm4) for mismanaging climate risk
• EU leaders are still unsure how to deal with (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iicraxMiPLIc1fWkApkOZvP5WojXxpK7fXRJ0IjeKguofthvpFlbJWDbiJOMtyhJDpLRaNHLfoWJgpQ4r6CbF5OpWELMFixeebX...
