If it’s a rare bug, or bird, or fish, they call them ‘species at risk’ – and when tree-huggers want to scare us, they suggest human survival is at risk.
Maybe we are at risk – financially, politically, inter-personally as we see struggles, ideology, race and religious conflicts all over the world – because there is no referee to step in to send combative humans and their ideals to their rooms to cool off, no limit to what we can say but muffled or stifled speech is in the air supply now too.