Climate legislation is only dead when supporters give up. So what if Manchin won’t support climate action? He’s the quintessential example of a conservative Democrat. Vote him out if you can, protest if you can, and speak out against him so that YOU get to write the first draft of his disgraceful legacy.
Don’t despair when you read claims like “Climate legislation is dead”, get mad. There is no force more powerful than an angry public. Use your frustration to contribute to progressive organizations in any capacity that you are able, because the future you want to see must be built by you.
When your friends or relatives mention gas prices redirect those conversations into how the opportunity to decarbonize painlessly was squandered decades ago. When the US didn’t take sufficient climate action 20 years ago the pain we’re feeling today became inevitable.
When you hear inflation being talked about redirect that conversation to a discussion about how car/truck dependent our cities and supply chains are. Trains, bicycles, and feet don’t give a fuck about the price of gas. When gas prices go up ALL prices increase because most of our transportation and industry is designed to use fossil fuel.
Everyone outside the US can have these conversations too. Get involved in your community because more lives than your own may eventually depend on the relationships and organizational foundations you build today.
Don’t focus on fighting the past, focus on building a future.
The problem is that the cost of living is going up for the general public right now. What vast majority of people care about is being able to pay their bills and not to have their standard of living decrease further.
Fossil fuels are the easy and quick solution that allows people to continue externalizing the problems into the future. While there’s a small percentage of people who can look at a big picture and realize that systemic change is needed, most people make a calculus on a personal level.
The kind of change that’s needed requires a stable government that’s able to make large scale plans and commit to implementing them. The only major country that’s currently able to do that is China.
I’m all for trying to educate people and promote sustainable solutions, but realistically I just don’t see anything changing until there is a massive climate catastrophe that starts affecting people in the west personally that they can no longer ignore.
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