Bryckosphere

Get ready to start hearing that term alot, because your kids are gonna be reading about it in history books. The dominos are starting to fall. America is getting a reality check from it's Coronavirus performance. We're in the deepest recession in recorded history. People are paralyzed at home while the one time stimulus check has come and gone. Unemployment is reaching record highs, with people unable to pay food or rent. And now a quick succession of events of racial violence that cannot be ignored by the now disrupted day to day of Americans is rippling across the US. Who knows what the next domino to fall will be, or when they will stop falling. 2020, rather prophetically, got off to a bad start, with forest fires sweeping across Australia. Oh and in the midst of all this catastrophe Brexit went through, although it's hard to believe that that was ever the center of attention. Change is in the air, and no matter how hard the institutions fight to prevent it, the contract...

[Originally published/Sent Jan 23rd] Dear Greta Thunberg, I need your help. But first, I need to explain it to you. You can skip to my point (marked with an arrow, à ), but I implore you to listen to my story and what I have to say. I believe it could be greatly beneficial, maybe even vital, in the collective fight against Climate Change.  First things first; My name is Bryce Wagner (a.k.a Ben Brycko). I’m a 20-year-old American-Swiss student currently studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. The sad truth is that I’m only a mild activist (I showed up and gave a speech for the March For Our Lives in Geneva, Switzerland in 2018, but that’s about it) and that I’m hardly the greatest example when it comes to advocating for action against Climate Change (so far I’ve missed all of the Climate Strikes, not by choice but by circumstance). But I did grow up exposed to nature more than the average kid, hiking, skiing, camping in the mountains and vall...