[Schiendelman]

Repeating that makes it harder to fight climate change. We are not all complicit, most of us as individuals are limited by the systems around us. Those who have actual power in the system are the ones who need pressure. If you pressure everyone to change every little thing about their life, they burn out and stop caring.

[forgotmypw17]

there are choices you make every day without giving it another thought which contribute a drop in the bucket of destroying our own habitat and biome. and many people are making those same choices together. you could sacrifice and live like a poor person but you don,t. like a nouveau riche, you buy things you don,t need from the global economy which are trucked and shipped around the world on diesel many times over before you see them, and you know it, and you still do it, because you,re too lazy to make a change. then you blame the ones you just hired to do the damage for you. you're giving your power away and have no one else to blame.

[Schiendelman]

I used to subscribe to this approach of personal responsibility. But even if absolutely everyone made all the personal choices they can, using up all their energy and time, they would cut world emissions by between 10 and 20%. Climate change is simply not something we can fix this way, and if we focus on that tiny chunk of it, we ignore the really important conversation about the companies that generate the vast majority.

[forgotmypw17]

I think one depends on the other, and vice versa.

I cannot control what those companies do, and I can't control what the government does, but I can control what I do every day and set an example.

[Schiendelman]

The act of doing so is a zero sum game with your other activities to make a real impact. If you refuse to fly to Washington DC, you can’t lobby. You are being taken in by a well-established campaign to get you to do and say what you are doing and saying.