Disposable People, Disposable Planet

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We’ve rounded the corner to the end of the year, and, like many people here on Medium, I’ve taken a look back at my writing. Unwittingly, I seem to have followed a theme in much of my political and cultural commentary: disposability. I never used the word or even discussed the concept directly, yet it was there lurking behind many of my essays. I made a commitment to write more about climate change, and I believe that’s what…