@hosford42 @ErikUden The thing is, we are already aware of the problem. We already want to fix it. We are even aware of the hypocrisy. That’s not the knob that needs to be turned.

We need to be activated toward effective action. Not just activated. What is the effective action? What is the next step to take? That’s what we should be talking about.

@hosford42 @abhayakara @ErikUden
1. Participate in a climate demonstration at least once a month.
2. Vote for the party/candidate that has the best and most radical climate politics where you live, on all political levels.
3. Talk about your fear of climate change in different situations, for example with friends and colleagues.
4. Try to reduce your own emissions as much as possible.

In this order.

@ahltorp @hosford42 @ErikUden

Unfortunately these are all things we've been doing since 1970 that haven't worked:

Moreover, several of them are actually tactics that have made us less effective.

Protests can be useful, mostly because they are a way to foster movements. They are effective when they gather popular support. They usually are used to discredit the movement, because they are so easy to misrepresent in the news. One person breaking a bottle and it's a violent protest.

@ahltorp @hosford42 @ErikUden

Voting only works if you are tactical about it. Voting does two things: it makes people who aren't really on your side but aren't against you take you seriously (if you do it right). And if you vote in primaries (in the U.S.), it allows you to change who is actually running in the general election, and then you might actually get to vote for someone who doesn't suck.

@ahltorp @hosford42 @ErikUden

But e.g. third parties in the U.S., which is not really a democracy, absolutely can't win elections. The whole system is set up to prevent that. Parties sometimes use third party voters to draw votes away from the other party. So voting third party in the U.S. at least is always a net lose. It literally can't do anytihng except the opposite of what you want.