What are your go-to key points to explain that we should indeed move our asses?
A good friend of mine who is in his seventies looks at me with eyes that say “you sweet summer child, when you’re older you’ll see things are not so bleak” and calls me fatalistic because of how much time and effort I’m willing to diverge into all things climate related. I’ve built a wooden Tiny House (on wheels so I could move it closer to wherever my job would take me), am lending a (musical) hand to multiple food forests/ edible city projects, will not get on the plane even though the train will take two days and I had to cancel a job I love doing for me to avoid getting on a plane, am not planing on having children of my own and am trying to make living differently socially acceptable. I’m hopeful, because I feel the ability to change and find more joy in this new version of living. To me there’s nothing fatalistic about that.
Yet I start to question myself when he ask me why I need to make everything so difficult for myself, the world will be fine if I take the plane he says. I start explaining the tipping points and all of the things that worry me, but I am no scientist and I fear I could be using the things that caught my eye more than the more scientifically important signs on the wall. Which of course undermines credibility and leads to inaction.
Thank you for taking the time to be here, it’s greatly appreciated
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What are your go-to key points to explain that we should indeed move our asses?
A good friend of mine who is in his seventies looks at me with eyes that say “you sweet summer child, when you’re older you’ll see things are not so bleak” and calls me fatalistic because of how much time and effort I’m willing to diverge into all things climate related. I’ve built a wooden Tiny House (on wheels so I could move it closer to wherever my job would take me), am lending a (musical) hand to multiple food forests/ edible city projects, will not get on the plane even though the train will take two days and I had to cancel a job I love doing for me to avoid getting on a plane, am not planing on having children of my own and am trying to make living differently socially acceptable. I’m hopeful, because I feel the ability to change and find more joy in this new version of living. To me there’s nothing fatalistic about that.
Yet I start to question myself when he ask me why I need to make everything so difficult for myself, the world will be fine if I take the plane he says. I start explaining the tipping points and all of the things that worry me, but I am no scientist and I fear I could be using the things that caught my eye more than the more scientifically important signs on the wall. Which of course undermines credibility and leads to inaction.
Thank you for taking the time to be here, it’s greatly appreciated
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