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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/inthehands/statuses/111910188097496063">Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 10:12:49 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands" title="inthehands@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/53259-48-20231130154634.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Paul Cantrell" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Paul Cantrell</a><div><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/111897208339956041" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna">@hrefna</a> Excellent thread. Thank you.</p><p>Several things you wrote brought to mind this piece about climate doomerism, particularly its magnificent final paragraphs:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers</a></p><p>(hope you don’t mind me dumping the screenshot in your replies; it’s my way of nodding vigorously)</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2696084#notice-5359155">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-02-11T10:12:49+09:00" title="Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 10:12:49 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111910188097496063" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111910188097496063">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2243575">I don’t know why so many people seem to think it’s their job to spread discouragement, but it seems to be a muddle about the relationship between facts and feelings. I keep saying I respect despair as an emotion, but not as an analysis. You can feel absolutely devastated about the situation and not assume this predicts outcome; you can have your feelings and can still chase down facts from reliable sources, and the facts tell us that the general public is not the problem; the fossil fuel industry and other vested interests are; that we have the solutions, that we know what to do, and that the obstacles are political; that when we fight we sometimes win; and that we are deciding the future now.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/910/187/922/610/411/original/2e287ec67de8d5b3.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/910/187/922/610/411/original/2e287ec67de8d5b3.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2243576">I wonder sometimes if it’s because people assume you can’t be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can. In times when everything is fine hope is unnecessary. Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities. Feelings deserve full respect as feelings, but all they inform you about is you. History is full of people who continued to struggle in desperate and grim circumstances, and so is the news from Ukraine to the Philippines. Some lived to see those circumstances change because of that struggle. Maybe this is what Antonio Gramsci meant with his famous phrase “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”. Some days I think that 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.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/910/188/052/891/867/original/ec428a9b8f1feea8.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/910/188/052/891/867/original/ec428a9b8f1feea8.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2243577">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 10:12:49 JSTPaul Cantrell
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@hrefna Excellent thread. Thank you.
Several things you wrote brought to mind this piece about climate doomerism, particularly its magnificent final paragraphs:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers
(hope you don’t mind me dumping the screenshot in your replies; it’s my way of nodding vigorously)
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