I just glanced through a newspaper article about recent research concerning global environmental degradation that is now putting life on earth at risk. In addition to climate change, there is a loss of biosphere integrity, soil degradation due to pesticides and herbicides, and dangerously high levels of fertilizers in the oceans. What struck me most in the article was that the researchers had found that changes of the last sixty years were unprecedented in the previous ten-thousand years. The article does not mention it, but the so-called agricultural revolution had started around that time with quite an impact on the environment. At any rate, I was struck by the fact that the degradation the research addressed had taken place during my own lifetime. Out of the blue, I started feeling guilty. The babyboomers are behind the horror without any doubt. My fucking generation. We are all witnesses to our collective stupidity regarding our environment. And putting life on earth at risk is the size of that stupidity.