Interesting to come across other activist writers. The problem with persuading politicians is many of them especially at the higher level are elected by a minority group. Unless you can convince other citizens to both stand for elections as someone different and vote for someone new it stays the same. Until then we have to convince politicians with evidence and generally that means something that is also a win for them and their voters.
Your swimming escape is similar to my walk escape. I know I should be writing but I go for a nice long walk at any opportunitiy. This post also got me thinking about when my grandma used to tell me about attending school during bomb raids in WW2, or when my mom spoke about nuclear drill at her office job in the 1980s I never used to be able to understand how they could live a normal live when all this shit was going on around them, but now going through our own kind of shit that the thing about the human brain is that you literally can't focus on one thing at all times. My climate fear comes in waves, but as long as I know my action is consistent then I can allow myself to relax at times by reminding myself I am not(!!!) solely gonna solve all the world's problems, and I do as much as I can within my abilities right now. Helps... most of the time.
Interesting to come across other activist writers. The problem with persuading politicians is many of them especially at the higher level are elected by a minority group. Unless you can convince other citizens to both stand for elections as someone different and vote for someone new it stays the same. Until then we have to convince politicians with evidence and generally that means something that is also a win for them and their voters.
Your swimming escape is similar to my walk escape. I know I should be writing but I go for a nice long walk at any opportunitiy. This post also got me thinking about when my grandma used to tell me about attending school during bomb raids in WW2, or when my mom spoke about nuclear drill at her office job in the 1980s I never used to be able to understand how they could live a normal live when all this shit was going on around them, but now going through our own kind of shit that the thing about the human brain is that you literally can't focus on one thing at all times. My climate fear comes in waves, but as long as I know my action is consistent then I can allow myself to relax at times by reminding myself I am not(!!!) solely gonna solve all the world's problems, and I do as much as I can within my abilities right now. Helps... most of the time.