Can’t see the forest for the trees

There’s a famed expression you “can’t see the forest for the trees,” originated by Englishman John Heywood in the 16th Century. This brilliant idiom is still as relevant today as it was long ago. Today the “trees” are jobs and profits. The “forest” is the world and how we are destroying it and ourselves by continuing our voracious consumption of fossil fuels unabated. Oh well, when our species self-terminates, at least we will be able to say “many of us had jobs and a few of us had great wealth.”