It seems to me that the unfortunate reality is that hitting people with facts has either already succeeded (that’s most of us reading this thread I would guess), or it will cause eyes to glaze over, and the cognitive dissonance to kick in to high gear; so we do need to do something different to persuade the rest to do something useful.
But, simply “making friends and telling stories” (to trivialise the article) is useless, there are very many resources on ‘nonnormative non-violent’ action and at least one study that confirm that it is statistically effective (dense scientific paper). Here’s some resources:
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Why the down votes on this? I had a quick look at the github repo and it looks pretty neat to me. I must be missing something…
Anyone care to enlighten me?
Here’s the job listing.
[…] Anticipate and manage RBC’s reputation related to climate transition activities and proactively mitigate any risk in this area […]
aka greenwashing
they find that what’s particularly effective is “non-normative non-violent action.”
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I suspect there’s also a branch off in the activism ~> radical doomer pipeline that leads to radical (direct) activism.
It convinces me we can’t rely on governments and corporations to do what is necessary to save our planet, so it is up to the common people to do what is necessary. But such actions would come at great risk and sacrifice to ones personal comfort, and the closest I even see to people taking these steps is throwing food at paintings, or people gluing themselves to the floor. I’ll admit, it’s more than what most people would do, but we should really be past the clown shit by now.
I agree 100%. I still believe (hope) that money is the best weapon we have, for now.
Thanks to Trading Places (1983) for the meme - fun movie from another era.
Exactly.
This describes well the 2030s presidential hopeful ‘The Pastor’ in Stephen Markley’s The Deluge.
I really believe this is the kind of action every one of us can work on.
do the research to find out who the bad fossil actors in your $ spend are
find an alternative (or stop the spend)
Forcing the $$ to dry up is the only action bad actors understand (other than effective legislation & enforcement, which I do not believe is ever likely in most jurisdictions).
Banks and ICE cars are obviously big sources of $$s going to fossil actors, followed I would guess by grid electricity in most jurisdictions. All of which (in theory at least) are under our very own control.
Fair enough, good point.
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