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.
Ainda são negativas e tinham sido negativas antes disso, mas quando se abria o jornal, ou se ligava a televisão, eram as calotas de gelo a derreter, guerras a acontecer por todo o mundo, tremores de terra, furacões, e uma economia a cambalear, à beira do colapso, e que, por fim, colapsou mesmo. Muitos de nós perdemos as nossas casas, os nossos empregos, as nossas reformas, o nosso sustento.