Jim Brumm: Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World

Though it is where we live and what we all we know firsthand, the fact remains that there is nothing special about now. Now is but the current moment in an unbroken, seamless stream of time, which cares nothing about the problems, the mores, the beliefs or the inhabitants of any particular moment. Time just is. People, redwood trees, mountains and fruit flies come and go. Time doesn’t care.