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One for me is that I spent so many years believing that resistance to change was from things like lack of understanding or fear of new habits and ways of living. I (naive, and proximal to empire) couldn't really hold the possibility that us all surviving wasn't a shared goal.
What's something about the resistance to create a just and sustainable that you once assumed was true but the last few years have forced you to see as a myth or as play-acting?
Energy security is part of it, but not all of it. And as we struggle with the impacts of hundreds of years of separating "us and them" and "human and nature" not mention "war" from 'security" the only way forward I see is to never let go of everyone mattering.
Electrification as a part of pathway towards collective wellbeing requires much for thoughtfulness of course: about the grid, and public ownership of infrastructure, and minining and workers.
Unrealistic in that no one is safe unless everyone is safe. Unstrategic in that electrification without care and community well-being built into it will not be fit for an interconnected worlds hit by more and more shocks.
In my opinion, pushing electrification not as a strategy for collective health and liberation but more as a bunker within reach of the middle class is unrealistic and unstrategic.
And I know that in an interconnected & brittle system shocks that start in one place don't stay in one place. Food, fertilizer, supply chains connect us all and so does our collective humanity. (Once again practicality and morality line up in complex systems).
My family drives an electric car, but I don't feel especially smug about being protected from all the ways oil shocks will ripple through the global economy. For one I care about the people who still have to get to work and school and health care w/o electric cars.
the fact that we're finally learning just how very many men in this world, particularly in this country, HATE us. Genuinely HATE women, want us all dead, want us to be subdued, want us to never dance with wild abandon like that woman on the dancefloor ever again – it all just hit me in one blow. 6/x
“Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war.” -- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Lettuce, kale, collards (for the greenhouse) onion family, parsley, celery!
Seedlings sprout under grow lights
The life force is strong too.
Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
These guys remind me of toddlers asking with every escalating action for boundaries and help with self-regulation. Toddlers with unfathomable powers of destruction.
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
Funding opportunity! It allows organizations to learn from efforts outside of the U.S. to reimagine and rebuild the health knowledge system in ways that can withstand systemic threats while advancing health equity and wellbeing for the future.
In my March edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I share an overview of a 1964 pamphlet by Anne Braden that remains relevant today. I recommend a podcast about a project documenting Black girlhood in photography and prose, several good recent articles and essays, and also I am raffling some prints.
It is always a good time to be kind to people you want to persuade.
Do you also have work (paid or unpaid) where you fix things and make them even stronger? What do you repair?
Screenshot of the "Does that use a lot of energy?" online app
Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities.
This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here.
hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...
So not to be misinterpreted- i don't mean that the answer is to stay the course with just any old plan. What we need is clearer than ever and the urgency is increasing exponentially by the week. We need a world with more peace, more cooperation, more justice, and more speed.
If you need to read about something working, something based on local knowledge and solidarity to bring impact to scale check this out! www.linkedin.com/pulse/scalin...
Long long ago I was hanging out with a girl who would often say "We're all just dogs wearing sweaters" as if that was a common saying. She had made it up, but we all know what that means I think. Now I, too, say it as if it's a known idiomatic phrase. And now it is.
will do, thanks Mike
Thank you for both references I will check them out.
Whole lot of responding to crisis from the same worldview that created it today. Though your power to interrupt that pattern may be small, even insignificant it is still bigger than zero. Can you tend even a tiny sliver of this broken world within and without?
It's fractal. Do you disrupt domination & supremacy patterns wherever you find them (even, maybe especially) in your own heart/mind? Do you strengthen mutuality & interdependence wherever you can? The little moments build strength, wisdsom, & pattern recognition for the bigger ones, in my experience
The ugly truth is that to fight BIG F fascism folks have to fight the
Little f fascism that they often let permeate their whole lives
For those familiar with the language of IFS - I'm interested in work looking at the idea that, from the behavior of a certain type of leader in gov't or business to overconsumption patterns, we might see the behavior of unexamined unintegrated "protector parts"