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I always see a lot of discouraging responses whenever protests are brought up. I don't think protests on their own will solve most major issues, but they're indicative of people caring enough to start going out of their way to do things, and can have awareness and ripple effects on a population.
How about instead of discouraging people from protesting as if it's pointless, encourage them to keep up that energy and recommend what else they can do now that they're all fired up and engaged? Why not fan the flame instead of raining on it?
Like what? Catastrophic climate collapse is imminent and will happen in our lifetimes, 4+c warming = billions of people will die.
Do you have any suggestions? What could we do? Hmmmm.
Maybe physics defying magic time travel boots could save us all? Nah, this seems unfeasible in the timescale we have, we should probably broaden our hopes a bit to include the hippy god aliens coming to save us with communist space magic.
Or maybe we should be more realistic and instead, be going around telling people to "have faith in the good of humanity cooperating together to fix this", and while they get on with that, everyone else should buy lots of electric cars, pretend recycling works and maybe think about possibly eating less meat occasionally.
Yeah, that should do it. Maybe let's throw in a community garden too, let's see how long that lasts before people fuck it up for each other.
Lmao, we might as well go fucking protest for all the good it will do.