My heart is heavy today. The climate crisis is creating death and destruction around the world– floodings in Texas, North Carolina, China, Columbia, and Afghanistan; extreme warm in numerous continents; purposeless wars and genocides– all continue in a somber and depressing death march. Authoritarianism is extra deeply established throughout the USA and the materials of the regulation passed and authorized by the President prior to the 4 th of July will create terrific harm to people I enjoy and consider family as well as set us back decades in the defend ecological justice and environment reduction and adjustment.
I feel like I have been discussing hope and resistance considering that I started at Climate Generation almost three years ago. And I have been locating it truly tough to practice what I preach, what I know, these last couple of weeks.
And then last evening, while ruin scrolling on Instagram, I saw a message from @earthlyeducation I was reminded that we require both to picture the world we in fact intend to reside in, and after that have practical strategies to combat for it. The blog post was a balm for my triggered mind, body, and heart. So I share, directly pricing estimate, from their article :
1 Speak fact with love
Start with your circles. Friends, family members, officemateses. Share the complete fact of what’s happening without sugarcoating it. This system is terrible and unsustainable. The objective is to wake individuals up, not with worry, however with quality and treatment.
2 Utilize your gifts for resistance
Whatever you do, you have power. Whether you make music, build points, teach, or organize behind the scenes, your abilities issue. Use them to sustain activities, rock the boat, or develop choices rooted in justice and ecology.
3 Challenge power directly
Power will not surrender willingly. Join motions that are standing up to nonrenewable fuel sources, business greed, and settler-colonial physical violence. Disrupt the smooth flow of organization customarily. Show up where it harms them most, and don’t request approval.
4 Divest from devastation
Move your money out of organizations moneying battle, fossil fuels, agriculture, and deforestation. Ethical banks and cooperative credit union exist. Every buck you remove is one much less fuelling collapse. Deprive the beast any place you can.
5 Sign up with or develop a cumulative
Cumulative power is our only hope. Sign up with a climate, housing, indigenous, or justice group that straightens with your worths. Or start one with others that are ready. You do not need to be excellent, simply present and ready to expand.
6 Live like industrialism is ending
Significantly decrease usage. Consume much more plant-based. Grow and share food. Cut connections with quick fashion and hyper-consumerism. Build your life around regeneration, fixing, care and shared assistance. Be a living opposition to this system.
7 Redeem neighborhood and connection
The system wants us isolated and sidetracked. Fight that by structure common help, sharing abilities, elevating kids with each other, and restoring kinship with the more-than-human world.
Susan Phillips
Executive Supervisor
Image: Fabrice Florin