A few years ago, very few people cared about climate breakdown. Now, the public cares a lot and wants action. This is huge. The next step is to leverage that public concern against the incumbent, recalcitrant fossil fuel industry and fossil politicians.
There are many ways to do this while also building the movement. Strikes. Global marches in the tens or hundreds of millions (we know now that 7 million does not create this leverage). Continued pressure on media and finance. XR-style disobedience. More radical direct actions.
Also pushing from within the system. Lawsuits and challenges to the legal system (e.g. ecocide law). Better and more mainstream climate storytelling. Climate candidates running & winning. Visioning in detail a harmonious human presence on Earth, the new narrative. We need it all
Goal is to get society to shift into emergency mode. This means prioritizing a habitable Earth over business as usual. We are not there yet. Under a BAU perspective, the kinds of policies and collective actions we need still seem radical. There's no incremental way out anymore
This is the fundamental problem with Green New Deal. It assumes we can still maintain current standards of energy and lifestyle, and it does not directly challenge the fossil fuel industry. We must go beyond GND, far beyond, and we can if society shifts to emergency perspective
And just forget about "net-zero by 2050," it is a business-as-usual and fossil fuel industry wet dream, and while this is the goal we are truly cooked
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