Doom is a privilege we can’t afford.

“Some days I think that if we lose the #climate battle, it’ll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Which is why fighting defeatism is also climate work.” - Rebecca Solnit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers?CMP=share_btn_tw

We can’t afford to be climate doomers

It often seems that people are searching harder for evidence we’re defeated than that we can win

The Guardian

@luckytran it’s easy to feel that doom as we look at study after study that puts the writing on the wall. Brazilians raping the Amazon, Arctic ice at its lowest point in all of creation, the potential stopping of the Atlantic current altogether in our lifetimes.

On the other side, it’s hard to feel optimistic when we the people are divided and conquered to the point that we can’t make immediate change peacefully. How the hell do you manage that?