Cabbage Steaks with Crispy Chickpeas
I take a vitamin every morning, but last Friday, after Russia invaded Ukraine, I looked at my vitamin and paused. I thought about pandemics and environmental collapse and war, and I wondered what sort of future the vitamin is preparing me to face. With respect to COVID, at least, things are looking better than they have in two years. In early January, omicron was everywhere. Now it is so scarce that school mask mandates are going away, my family has more test kits than we need, and I ate inside a restaurant a week ago! INSIDE! But in contrast to the pandemic, the outlook is currently bad with respect to global warming. Have you heard about the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? You know, the panel whose many reports are always filling us with despair ? Well this new report will... fill you with more despair. Honestly, I could not possibly be more a part of the choir when the IPCC preaches, but I am not sure what else there is for...