Thread by @SaraSchurmann

One year old but still very true words from @EricHolthaus:

>> Times like these feel too big, too complex to grasp. But we know from history that times like these are exactly when radical change is most likely to happen.

That’s where you come in.

Climate scientists have been saying for years that only "rapid, far-reaching & unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" will begin to repair the harms already underway in the #ClimateEmergency.

That means: political, cultural, economic, & technological revolution.

For revolutions to succeed, they have to keep moving once they’ve started. This is what it looks like to create systemic change from your own individual action: Join the crowd demanding justice. Do everything you can to rest, recharge, lend aid, care for loved ones & strangers.

And then heading back out into the streets again tomorrow. It looks like modelling the world we are trying to build together.

Don’t be silent. Don’t wait for a better moment. This is the best moment you’re going to get. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for.

It’s OK to be nervous, even scared. I am, every day. But there are billions of people on your side, and they’re depending on your courage and your moral clarity to utterly transform your tiny corner of this big broken system we’re all a part of.

This is the work you were meant to do. You are perfectly qualified for it. In fact, we can’t do it without you. <<

At first I hated him for these words, thought they were pathetic in the face to the #ClimateCatastrophe.

But he is perfectly right. Nothing will change if you wont. And there still is so much we can and we have to save. thecorrespondent.com/607/you-are-al…