The Tragedy Behind “It’s not our Tragedy”: Climate Change, Rosh Hashanah, Umair Haque, and We’re all Connected

I, for one, don’t like to be called stupid. Which sometimes happens when I read some of what Umair Haque, a noted thought leader, has to say in his frequent posts on Medium. His pieces are often filled with dire diagnoses and predictions about our politics and our planet, and I confess to often enough running in the opposite direction, angry at his anger. But his ten-minute read (and this is long on Medium!) on August 11, 2021, had me gripped in the necessity of staying…