We all have opinions about the ongoing pandemic. We have different risk thresholds, different levels of comfortability, and different circumstances in our lives.

When’s the last time you had a discussion about the pandemic without someone with wildly different circumstances than your own? Mass media is designed to resemble an echo chamber, but we must fight devolving into such an environment in our daily lives.

The only way out of this, out of any of our problems, is to learn how to organize ourselves. We can overcome the most dire situations we face, such as climate change and inequality, by organizing. We’ve gotten better at it over the millennia, certainly, but the past few years have demonstrated we still have a long way to go.

Technology is merely a tool, not a solution. We are the solution. Our ability to organize more effectively will determine the fate of not just our species, but the fate of much of the planet, for centuries to come. The time is now: can we evolve?