Emily Cunningham

But I also don't think we've lost everything. There's still a lot to loose. People don't understand how much has already been lost and what's at stake, though. Otherwise initiative 1631 would have passed in WA state, or climate would be everyone's #1 issue (which it should be).

Have you read @drvox's (wonky but wonderful) pieces on climate change and hope? They certainly helped ground me, and to see more clearly we aren't merely spitting into wind, but part of something that could make the "once implausible inevitable." Thread:https://twitter.com/emahlee/status/1079867409337540609 …

This framing struck me as problematic, if not inaccurate: "we're going to lose, but we must fight—as moral people—anyways." Of course we must. But I fight because of what's possible AND because I couldn't live with myself if I didn't. https://twitter.com/daveregrets/status/1079564979584389120 …

In other words, not doing the right thing, not taking brave stands on climate change would cost me a large chunk of myself, of my humanity. Something I'm not willing to swallow, as I'm also not willing to watch silently as our beautiful world is burned down.

But do I think I'm fighting just to fight and what I do is an inconsequential lost cause even if it might be the right, moral thing? Hell no! I absolutely think what I (and others) do makes a difference, even if I'll never know the impact it had.