We are what we repeatedly do.

-Aristotle

Let’s hope not.

Human response tends to put off dealing with the bad until later. Repeatedly. That sort of defines the decade on climate change. For DTE, one of the highlights of the decade was watching, or studying, HBO’s The Wire which held a mirror up to society. (Seriously: It should’ve won the Pulitzer Prize.) Creator David Simon was interviewed by Mother Jones in the fall of 2008 on climate change.

During the discussion he used the analogy that his high school sociology teacher gave him: If you put a frog in the bottom of a pot of water and turn the heat on, it won’t leap until you’ve got him to boil. “There are human beings so lazy that when they have to go to the bathroom they wait to get up until the commercial,” he said. And with climate change, as Simon believes, there is no later. So, here’s to not repeating the mistakes that defined the last decade as the world is pushed into a new trajectory.

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