Why is loving the earth a simple truth?

Well, you know, on one level, it's very easy to get distracted from it.

It's very easy to think that really the only thing that are important are things we manufacture, forgetting, for example, that we only manufacture stuff because we live on an earth with gravity and a climate and water and oxygen and materials which we operate on in order to get this stuff that we manufacture.

It's very easy to be so caught up in one's social identity.

I'm white, I'm black, I'm rich, I'm poor, I'm successful, not successful, gay, straight, all these kinds of things, Jewish, Christian, Muslim.

We forget that we are a physical being.

And I think that the digital revolution, which I'm old enough to have seen from the beginning, has led us further in that direction.

A world of wounds.

And how do you answer that question?

Well, I answer it first by, you know, reciting at greater length the kind of depressing statistics and facts that I just offered.

It's not hard to see why I don't get invited to cocktail parties, right? I'm just an incredible source of depressing information.

And I also add a few other features as well.

I'll just mention two of them quickly, then get on to what's left.

And one of the most important spiritual relations, if it can be spiritual relations we have in our lives, is with our children.

Of course, we might want to make them into symbols of our adequacy and be able to brag about them and all that kind of thing.

What's your writing process like?