On Climate: Grieve, Cry, But Don’t Give Up!
Grief calls climate activists to embrace the most difficult challenge: to fight to save as much life as possible and—hopefully—to restore some of what’s gone.
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Climate Action Epistemology Part 6: Developing an Intellectually and Politically Active Culture
It’s essential to understand that knowledge is power, to have a solid analytical framework with the right guiding questions, and to work with others to share the significant costs involved in becoming deeply informed.
Hope Amid Climate Chaos: A Conversation with Rebecca Solnit
Can the things that are coming together — which, of course, for me would be the positive things, the climate movement and the changes we’re trying to make — outrun the negative things, which are both climate change and its catastrophes and destruction?
A Climate Scientist Goes to Jail with Peter Kalmus (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)
Climate scientist and activist Peter Kalmus returns to Crazy Town, but this time with a green badge of courage. Earlier this year, he locked himself to the entrance of the JP Morgan Chase building in downtown Los Angeles to protest their ongoing investment in the fossil fuel industry.
Feeling at odds with Just Stop Oil’s tomato soup protest? That’s the point
This action is designed to be destabilizing. It is meant to hit us and to challenge us: What are we ready to do, what are we eager to give up, or even to sacrifice to try to save what can still be saved?
“We Have to Start Questioning What Systems We Are Participating In”
That is why they are called non-renewable resources, for example. Because Mother Earth doesn’t have the ability to renew those resources at the same speed at which we’re taking them.
There’s no place for burnout in a burning world
Climate activists can start to build a stronger culture of care by taking burnout seriously and understanding its root causes.
Reality Is Not What It Seems. And That Might Just Save the Climate
Quantum social activism invites us to think differently about familiar dilemmas, and see what new possibilities may open as a result.
Can Transformative Change Come to America?
Perhaps sooner than most think, major legislative action regulating greenhouse gas emissions will finally be possible. But that moment will not arrive without deep struggle, organizing, and collective persistence.
“The possible has been tried and failed: now I want to try the impossible”: What Sun Ra can teach the climate movement
What if, as climate activists, we were to respectfully adopt that concept of “I’ve been to the future. We won” and build on it.
Getting to the source: A climate activist’s reflections on MLK’s teaching
MLK teaches us that this kind of systemic change will not come without struggle and personal sacrifice. He asks us each to consider the role we will play.
“Don’t Look Up” (part 2) – What I learned
The climate movie Don’t Look Up has a lot to teach activists, in fact anyone concerned about our future.