Det var inte länge sedan jag lade till honom i listan, Johnny Rook´s Climaticide Chronicles, och utan att då uppmärksamma vad Climate Progress nu berättar: att Johnny Rook är svårt sjuk med en aggressiv form av leukemi. Han fortsätter, trots att det är en kamp, att skriva om klimatfrågan, men den 5 februari postade han en uppdaterad version av ett tidigare inlägg på sajten Daily Kos, där han berättar om sjukdomen. I inlägget, som har rubriken ”My doctor doesn’t think I’m going to die today”, skriver Johnny Rook starkt både om sin egen situation, och om världens.
”The changes required of us are enormous. A little biofuel and a few CFLs aren’t going to do it. We can no longer live as we have and we have only been able to live as we have because we have borrowed so much from the future. We are way over the limit on our Gaia Visa card and the penalties and fees are going to be enormous. We can’t declare bankruptcy either, because in this case bankruptcy equals death.
I love the earth. I have delighted in it for 53 years and I hope to live here for a while longer. My doctor has told me that I’m not going to die today and I’m glad. But if I have to die anytime soon it will be a lot easier if I can go knowing that we have truly accepted reality and are making the radical changes in how we live that are required. If we take the necessary measures to stop global warming and to live sustainably the world that our children and grandchildren will live in will be unrecognizably different from our own. And if we don’t take those necessary measures the world that our children and grandchildren will live in will also be unrecognizably different from our own.”
I en fotnot tvingades han dock lägga till att doktorerna upptäckt att hans leukemi var betydligt värre än befarat, och att nya transplantationer och behandlingar dittills misslyckats:
”Obviously, this is not the outcome we had hoped for, and there are times when I am frightened, but most of all I feel even more urgently the need to write and get the word out about Climaticide. You see, I am running out of time, but so are all of you. It will be such a shame if you do not act, because you still have a chance. Please do not let it slip away, for all your sakes and for mine–JR.”
Och den 5 februari skriver han:
”When I write about solutions I often focus on how people and governments are mostly oblivious to what is happening and to how little time we have left to act boldly and forcefully to effect the radical change that the scientists tell us is necessary. (…..) I understand that such news can depress. At times it depresses me but, more than anything else, it has filled my life with meaning. I have a mission. Before I die, I want to have some sense that this beautiful planet that has provided the context for my life, will have some chance of enduring. I want to die with hope, believing that my teenage son and his children and your children and their children will live in a world that is reasonably hospitable to human beings.”
P.S. I förrgår berättade Johnny Rook stolt, i en kommentar till inlägget hos Climate Progress, att hans egen 19-årige son den här veckan rest till Washington för att delta vid klimatmanifestationen Power Shift.
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