Feeling guilty every time we can’t be perfect environmentalists isn’t sustainable. For a safer climate, we don't need to get every action right, but we do need to understand the greater scope of the crisis.
Those people earning 30k a year still buy gas guzzlers and vote for the billionaires to stay in charge while getting their information from other billionaires.
They need a mindset change. That happens at the local level, through word of mouth and seeing their peers making lifestyle change.
Oh I’m familiar with the demographic, I just don’t see them changing because their “weirdo libtard” neighbor bought a used Prius or something. At this point I feel like you’re either onboard with the whole “climate change is real and bad and something should be done” agenda or else living in clown world mainlining alternative “facts.” And how do you even discuss these issues with someone who disputes the nature of reality itself? If you’ve got that one figured out please share because it’ll be useful in talking to my parents.
You have to make it beneficial to them. “Yeah this thing is a lot cheaper and more reliable than my old car and I hate having to go to gas stations with all those shady people” goes a lot further than, “We need to adjust our habits to curb a runaway greenhouse effect and the best we can hope for is only 2.5C warming by 2100.” One makes them consider electric; the other makes them avoid (and hate) you.
Either that, or just convince them not to vote. “Yeah the election was rigged, not even worth it to go vote anymore.”
Those people earning 30k a year still buy gas guzzlers and vote for the billionaires to stay in charge while getting their information from other billionaires.
They need a mindset change. That happens at the local level, through word of mouth and seeing their peers making lifestyle change.
Oh I’m familiar with the demographic, I just don’t see them changing because their “weirdo libtard” neighbor bought a used Prius or something. At this point I feel like you’re either onboard with the whole “climate change is real and bad and something should be done” agenda or else living in clown world mainlining alternative “facts.” And how do you even discuss these issues with someone who disputes the nature of reality itself? If you’ve got that one figured out please share because it’ll be useful in talking to my parents.
You have to make it beneficial to them. “Yeah this thing is a lot cheaper and more reliable than my old car and I hate having to go to gas stations with all those shady people” goes a lot further than, “We need to adjust our habits to curb a runaway greenhouse effect and the best we can hope for is only 2.5C warming by 2100.” One makes them consider electric; the other makes them avoid (and hate) you.
Either that, or just convince them not to vote. “Yeah the election was rigged, not even worth it to go vote anymore.”