Thread by @RebeccaSolnit

We spent a lot of time trying to convince people climate is real and urgent; that has mostly been accomplished. Now we have to convince people that we can do something about it, that we have the solutions, that most people already take climate seriously and support action...

..., that doing what the climate demands could produce an era of abundance, not austerity, that the main obstacles are political, that civil society has overthrown regimes and status quo and changed the world before and can again.

But there is something in the nature of media and maybe storytelling that finds the disaster more exciting than the solution, and the disasters are spectacular and easy to grasp, the solutions more wonky, and the very nature of news is to tell you what happened yesterday....

And what happened yesterday might be another flood or heat record broken or fire; what happened over the past twenty years is a stunning slow incremental undramatic transformation of wind, solar, and related energy solutions, and the growth of public engagement.

Our future depends on motivating and mobilizing the public. Stories are crucial in so doing....

So I keep working on it. upaya.org/2023/07/rebecc…

And we put this together toward that end. And we keep going.

I keep writing. (This one was not my title, and newspaper stories are usually not the author's title). washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

And keep writing. newstatesman.com/environment/20…

And keep writing. theguardian.com/environment/20…

That's not all I do. I donate, serve on the board of Oil Change International, on the advisory boards of Dayenu and Third Act, join protests, try to support the people I know doing good work... Here's OCI which does fantastic work: priceofoil.org

Here's to finding the paths forward by facing the future.

Later today and again tomorrow I'll record some climate podcasts with @jhalifax and @CFigueres. An honor, a joy, and a fulfillment of my ongoing commitment to find ways to do what I can about climate.

@WeightInnovate And among the data I keep sharing is stuff like this. "Nearly seven-in-ten Americans (69%) favor the U.S. taking steps to become carbon neutral by 2050," pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

@WeightInnovate And this. theguardian.com/environment/20…