yetiinabox, 5 months ago

@jackofalltrades @pvonhellermannn @urlyman @peterdutoit

Morning all.
There are already locally-led, bottom-up responses. Here's Bude, in Cornwall: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/14/cornish-town-faces-climate-threat-head-on-bude .

If we keep "calling on government to...", nothing will change. We know government has become a mechanism for distraction and delay by corporations and oligarchs. If we organise ourselves, using socio-political tools and strategies that are hard to capture/commodify, we can build a future starting now. This approach doesn't offer a direct solution to the worst systemic threats (e.g., successful regulation at the state or international level) , but it does offer an actually possible path forward which may well lead to systemic change more quickly than struggling against petrostates on the battlefield they choose and control (e.g. COP28). It is possible to do both - advocacy and activism seeking systemic change, and locally-led creation of eco-social adaptive communities.

The #Transition movement, #solarpunk...it is vital that we not give up hope.