The most important video you’ll watch today.

It’s hard to walk around understanding the existential threats we face under the polycrisis—not just the obvious stranglehold of capitalism and rising authoritarianism that benefits few and harms many, but the looming prospects of runaway heating (and resulting wet-bulb temps + increase of heat-related injury and death), biodiversity loss, pollution (air, soil, and water), AMOC collapse, melting ice sheets, sea-level rise, soil desertification…and too many more to name. Trying to go along with normal life is…crazy-making. And yet, it seems like this is what everyone around you is doing. This video does an excellent job of explaining this phenomenon from the perspective of neuroscience. Understanding this basic human reality is the first step toward ultimately changing outcomes.