Thoughts on student loan forgiveness pt. 2 . Full slide 1 & 2 text: The challenges we as a society and world are facing and will face are so enormous and so stark that they have the capacity to overwhelm any individual wealth or power. For example: the rich will not be able to run from climate change, no matter how many may want to believe they can buy their personal way out of it. . In light of the ecological, economic, and social challenges we face, our society's ability to triumph and prevail actually depends on our capacity for SELFLESSNESS over SELFISHNESS. . That’s why if you're upset now about student loan forgiveness, you are likely not ready for climate change. You are not ready for your home to be flooded or taken by wildfire, or for a medical emergency to affect your family. Because when crisis finds us (and it always does) it requires us to rely on others, and that will be difficult to nonexistent if you spent your life fighting against our capacity to help one another in many other different ways even if we don't immediately benefit in the short run. . If you think this is silly, look at the National Flood Insurance Program and some are already opposing it's expansion and adaptation to the climate crisis citing similar self centered framing that others use to oppose loan forgiveness.