Reading this to me, was easy to understand individually but as a whole story, it was hard to piece together what the meaning exactly was. There were a few passages that I chose to comment on though. One of the passages that I quite enjoyed but had trouble deciphering was “The book will say that climate is complicated, that we may be doing this and if we are, it may explain that this was something we’ve done quite accidentally, which she can understand, not having meant that morning to have spilled the milk. She’s one of those who’s only hungry metaphorically.
It’s easy to decipher some of the beginning as it is a continuation of the discussion on how the earth’s resources are misused and almost talking about the idea of how humans and their technologies have polluted the earth. When it says the book I’m unsure what that refers to. I wanna say that the relationship between the accidentally having caused the earth to bepolluted by all of our cars and waste is related to the analogy of we have a glass of milk and it looks perfectly fine but of course in the long run we didn’t mean to spill our milk.
“In the years since, we’ve gotten even better at relentless simplification, but it’s taken until our time for it to crowd out, savagely the rest of life.”
I feel this describes the way we as humans today almost settle into our everyday lives. The poem talks about philosophers and poets and how they taught the world to love and enlightened them to new and better things. Today we are too consumed it says with “curiosity and greed”. To make a change though and see a difference in this one has to get rid of, I like the term “savagely” take care of these issues. These are maybe blocks that stand in the way of fixing the problems that we have created that now harm and endanger our planet and the technology and things we have now blind us and leave us in comfort. That is what I took from this.
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