“If we lose the climate battle, it’ll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Which is why fighting defeatism is also climate work.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers
…and I reiterate: the fossil fuel industry understands this perfectly well, and they ••want•• your defeatism. Your hopelessness is their PR strategy. Don’t give those fuckers the satisfaction.