Since the early 1980’s I’ve been personally aware that there are changes happening in our world that genuinely need our attention. The thing is that because we are just a short term speck on this existence, time can seem to move MIGHTY slowly. The newsmakes an effort to keep pace with all theminutia of every day, while the more expansive matters that take time just sit in the back seats, incrementally adjusting while our attention is elsewhere. Thirty or forty years goes by and those things just do their thing but don’t often call attention, precisely because they move slowly in terms of a human life. Just recently, some of…