It's still heavy now, and it was heavy before that, but when you flipped open a newspaper, when you turned on the TV, it was about ice caps melting, wars going on around the world, earthquakes, hurricanes and an economy that was wobbling on the brink of collapse, and then eventually did collapse, and so many of us losing our homes, or our jobs, or our retirements, or our livelihoods.
Todavía lo son, y lo fueron antes de eso, pero cuando uno abre un periódico, cuando enciende la tele, los casquetes polares se derriten, hay guerras en todo el mundo, terremotos, huracanes, y una economía que se tambaleaba al borde del colapso, y finalmente colapsó y muchos perdimos nuestras casas, o nuestros empleos, o nuestras jubilaciones, o nuestro medio de subsistencia.