https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/climate-change-anger-fossil-fuels/
Excerpt: The prospects for a more just and sustainable future may seem bleak, but we can’t give up. …
The struggle against climate change has long been demoralizing and draining. But we need to gather our strength to meet this moment. …
I am overcome with exhaustion. I’m tired of feeling outraged and grief-stricken watching my country’s leaders prop up an economy that, by its very design, mortgages my and my peers’ future for their short-term gain and works for none of us in the long run.
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I can’t help but also feel angry at the Biden administration and the Democratic Party, who banked young people’s futures on having Biden or Harris in the Oval Office—promising us that if we got out and voted, just as we did in 2020, we’d see our efforts rewarded. President Biden resisted taking the kind of sweeping and bold action to protect our futures that Trump and his sycophants are now using to systematically destroy them. Instead of actually declaring an official climate emergency (as over 2,364 jurisdictions in 40 different countries, including 18 national governments and the European Union, have done), Biden simply said he had “practically” declared one. Meanwhile, Trump took a day to formally declare a national energy emergency to expedite oil and gas drilling, furthering dependence on the deadly fossil fuels and withdrawing (again) the world’s largest historical emitter from the Paris Agreement, with the industry-bought GOP continuing to fall in line with unabashed climate denial and delay. The list of environmental rampages goes on, including nominating a fossil fuel CEO for secretary of energy and a vaccine skeptic to lead the Health and Human Service Department amid rising cases of bird flu, one of many zoonotic and infectious diseases made more likely to spread by climate change.
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And we continue fighting an intersectional fight, understanding that climate justice is economic, social, racial, gender, and border justice. We continue advocating for policies that welcome environmental migrants and climate refugees from the Global South, suffering the consequences of Global North greed, and acknowledge that climate-change–induced displacement is already happening within our borders.
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Tomorrow, like most days, I’ll wake up again filled with rage and grief. … The Trump administration is a carbon bomb that will reverberate for generations—and more immediately, for my generation.
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But it’s still not too late for climate action. The prospects for a more just and sustainable future may seem bleak, but we can’t give up.
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So we keep fighting for the only scientifically and morally acceptable outcome: a rapid fossil fuel phase-out, starting now.
