I’m sorry. I also feel anger and fear. I am desperately looking for ways to take action that are at least potentially effective, even if there is risk and personal cost to myself. I do not feel like a “moderate”.
I also do not want to lose sight of my own value system. Trump is full of vengeful hate. I would rather be a good person who got killed trying to make things better than be still alive but consumed with vengeful hate / hurting other people.
I am not religious - but I am a pacifist at heart. The people I admire most are folks who brought about massive change through non violent means - not people who won wars.
And honestly even if the political stuff all suddenly became ok (it won’t) the billions of people who will die from climate change is inevitable- so that gives me some perspective. Like we are ALL going to die. What is the best I can do with the time I have?
I do not have answers. Maybe - as you suggest - everything I do will be ineffective. I share your fear and dread, but if I can’t continue to value love over hate then I have already lost.
Yeah no, I’m apathetic usually because I know I’d become really unhinged. But when the time comes I’m fighting to the death, I’d be pissed to die without taking anyone down with me. I’m not letting them take me away so the last bit of my life is slow torture or worse some fucked up torture porn. I’m not letting go of my anger because I’d stop fighting and just ignore it everything. If I survived off of that? Off of never fighting? I’d never be able to look at my reflection again.
I’m not saying I need to be uncontrolled with my anger, but I’m going to act with it as my fuel.
Death from climate change is still fixable probably, and even if it’s not we can at least kill these billionaires and old politicians that have caused it. so they don’t get to hang out as the rest of us slowly die.
I’m sorry. I also feel anger and fear. I am desperately looking for ways to take action that are at least potentially effective, even if there is risk and personal cost to myself. I do not feel like a “moderate”.
I also do not want to lose sight of my own value system. Trump is full of vengeful hate. I would rather be a good person who got killed trying to make things better than be still alive but consumed with vengeful hate / hurting other people.
I am not religious - but I am a pacifist at heart. The people I admire most are folks who brought about massive change through non violent means - not people who won wars.
And honestly even if the political stuff all suddenly became ok (it won’t) the billions of people who will die from climate change is inevitable- so that gives me some perspective. Like we are ALL going to die. What is the best I can do with the time I have?
I do not have answers. Maybe - as you suggest - everything I do will be ineffective. I share your fear and dread, but if I can’t continue to value love over hate then I have already lost.
Yeah no, I’m apathetic usually because I know I’d become really unhinged. But when the time comes I’m fighting to the death, I’d be pissed to die without taking anyone down with me. I’m not letting them take me away so the last bit of my life is slow torture or worse some fucked up torture porn. I’m not letting go of my anger because I’d stop fighting and just ignore it everything. If I survived off of that? Off of never fighting? I’d never be able to look at my reflection again.
I’m not saying I need to be uncontrolled with my anger, but I’m going to act with it as my fuel.
Death from climate change is still fixable probably, and even if it’s not we can at least kill these billionaires and old politicians that have caused it. so they don’t get to hang out as the rest of us slowly die.