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You have more power than you think you do. But, if you're protesting, you're probably wasting that power. If you want to use it, get off the streets and get into the conference rooms where policy decisions are made. Don't protest, propose.
Rather than spending an afternoon marching every once in a while, if you want to use your power to influence policy, you need to spend the hundreds of hours needed to study and craft detailed policy proposals and present them to policy makers. Marching is easy. Do the hard work.
Then the hard part is that you'll almost always be ignored... We proposed the One Knob efficiency program in 2014. It was praised but ignored. So we're building it into HVAC 2.0... and creating a market based mechanism.
It is great that you proposed something in 2014. But, why didn't you propose the same thing in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019? People don't hear ideas and immediately react. You must be persistent. Building consensus takes time. Progress takes hard work.
I've been a party in most of the New York's Electric and Gas rate cases for several years -- as an individual, without a group behind me. Nonetheless, I've had a significant impact in getting new rates defined, old policies changed, and made more progress than any protester has.
I would agree Bob! Bitching doesn't get stuff done. Working does. Find your work, right? What's the change you're most proud of?
This completely ignores that, up to this point, the most powerful stakeholders in the energy sector have a vested interest in keeping fossil fuels in use. There is no policy proposal ingenious enough to change that.
Those power dynamics make responding to climate change not a simple matter of improving agnostic systems, but building and wielding political power. Every successful social movement in our history has shown us that protest is a necessary, irreplaceable step in doing so.
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