I think this article is several years too late
A Step-by-Step Guide to Fighting Climate Change. Step One: Get Pissed Off
When people ask what they can do personally to fight climate change, the advice they get is normally not all that great. Riding your bike, avoiding drinking straws, eating less meat, boiling water more efficiently or undertaking any number of personal lifestyle actions is unlikely on its own to lead to the massive and immediate economic changes scientists calculate are required to avoid catastrophe.
Notice how climate cultists are always being told to not practice what they preach?
But it doesn’t mean you’re powerless. VICE recently spoke with organizers and strategists associated with Occupy Wall Street, the Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion, Indivisible and “The Squad”—comprised of congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley—who said you have more leverage and influence over our planet’s fate than you’re likely aware.
Here are five practical ways you can wield it.
2. Directly confront the people in power (in person, if possible)
We are living through what movement advisor and former Occupy Wall Street organizer Jonathan Smucker calls “a crisis of legitimacy.” Our political and economic system is so obviously failing—to the point where it’s destabilizing the foundation for all human life and leading to inequality not seen since the Great Depression—that vast numbers of people are losing faith in it.
So, wait, this is essentially telling climate cultists to get violent. Because that’s what happens.
5. Commit an act of nonviolent civil disobedience
Actions like the above apply gradual but steady force on elected officials. But with time rapidly ticking down on our climate emergency, more pressure may need to be brought to bear.
Well, good luck with that. These are leftists, and they are anything but non-violent. Of course, those who do not get violent cause those around them to get pissed off and dismissive of the Cult when they’re days, and property, are ruined.
Committing nonviolent civil resistance shouldn’t be taken lightly. It can carry the risk of serious jail time. Hallam advises that anyone planning an action do so openly and publicly (which can lead to a more welcoming culture for participants) and be polite with the police to reduce the odds of an aggressive crackdown.
These are the same people who despise police, so, it won’t work out well.
