“If they can’t pull this off, then we failed; the country has failed the climate test.”
There is no test. This is not pass/fail. That's orderly transition thinking.
Not acting only means different actions later, under more torque, with greater losses + less opportunity.
There is no test. This is not pass/fail. That's orderly transition thinking.
Not acting only means different actions later, under more torque, with greater losses + less opportunity.
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/1478487407947251713
Believing we can "fail" the climate "test" leads us to the error of believing in binary outcomes— that there's a point at which it will be "too late" to act and it's "game over"— when all outcomes are complex and transapocalyptic, and action is inevitable.
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/an-orderly-t…
alexsteffen.substack.com/p/an-orderly-t…
(It's every bit as serious as we suspect, it's just that most of us are working with outdated and semi-functional epistemological frameworks for what increasing seriousness means in this context.)
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