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@mekkaokereke @JamesWidman If we fixed our democracy so that the actions of government reflected the will of the people, we’d make meaningful steps on climate action. But our policy is set by the party funded by big oil and whose platform is “we hate anyone who isn’t white,” so here we are. Democracy first, then when you get an even slightly more responsive government, those 200 million people need to push hard on our representatives for climate action. It’s just hard to do that when losing an election right now would be such a disaster.

I only don’t believe at all that traveling less is meaningful. Air travel is 2.5% of CO2 emissions, maybe 4% of overall contribution to climate change. Even wildly successful collective action won’t make a dent in those numbers, and letting the dialogue remain on individual contributions (ban plastic straws! Recycle your plastics!) maintains the distraction.