Today, for Tough Times Tuesday, we look at the latest valiant bit of reporting on Big Business emissions from The Guardian, and put it in conversation with the last two decades of reporting trying to sound the alarm in a way that might actually yield meaningful change. We keep saying that change has to happen "now"... but when it doesn't (and it won't), we need to be pragmatic. Our fight will be lifelong.
#ClimateCrisis #Technology #MediaLiteracy #Humanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-guardians-run-of-climate-journalism
@MLClark This piece, now I think for a moment makes me think of that joke where my dad tells the pious guy "I sent you 2 boats and a helicopter!"
I have a subscriber who keeps rapping my knuckles for ending pieces with a whisper of hopium/copium. I really hope this piece appeases him, because I'm definitely not naive when it comes to how much we're royally screwed by our inability to surmount tribalism long enough to change our civilization's OS.
I just also know we have to keep trying, even if the ship *is* going down. Too many fellow sentients need to know they're not alone, and to be uplifted as much as we still can.
Well I think that's just about the nicest way that someone's ever called me a Devil's Advocate. Thank you, Luce.
I am with you, too. I'm glad we get to share in this slice of a strange voyage on Ol' Blue - though if we ever happen to meet again in a nicer slice of time and space, that'd be just fine by me, as well.
(You free for biscuits and poppers on the other side of Jupiter a couple centuries from now, perchance?)
@MLClark That's very specific. Yes, I will be in the public lounge on station, and I will look very much like a hyena.
(for reasons too long to go into)
@MLClark here to say: it doesnt read as hopium to me. But does read as a candle whisper of connection. Gratitude. 🙏
Coming from someone whose work every day keeps hope alive for so many young people growing into a world so much lesser than the one they deserve, that means a lot.
Thank you for your presence, Laurel - not just with my writing, but in general. With everyone. Your communities are so very fortunate to have you in them.
I'm glad I was able to write something that leaves others feeling supported in the middle of the hard, unending work of change that they already do. 💛
@MLClark I am kinda humbled. Thank you, much love @AskTheDevil
@LaurelGreen @MLClark There are just some people I feel _privileged_ to encounter.
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@MLClark Thank you. I want to say, reading that last piece, I felt almost like you were speaking _for_ me. I have so rarely felt so much less alone all at once.
Thank you. I needed some uplifting!
And I, for my part, am with you. I stand with you.