Seeking positions that will advocate for finding ways to create a just and environmentally balanced world, focusing on our shared nighttime space | Currently a Training Manager focused on emergency preparedness.
For us regular, non-expert, advocates and volunteers, the climate effort can be a hard place to exist in. #Hope, no matter how necessary, can be hard to lock onto and carry forth to our coworkers, friends, family, and small groups that we present to. But as Michael Mann and Katharine Hayhoe both remind us, to give into the doom that is an especially popular focus in the media, the ever growing mountain of dire headlines, is to give in and give up. I myself, while working on #lightpollution issues and striving to expand my efforts in protecting nighttime environments, can fall pray to sharing sensational headlines pointing out our eventual demise. But the only way we fail is if we give into what the polluters of our world want: a self-defeating, spiraling circle of doubt and fear that eventually paralyzes us. If I decided that there was no hope, why bother reducing light levels and fighting to save species? We can do this. We can always make things better, and prevent them from getting worse. It will just take a little work, and a little hope in the face of those who want us to give up. The future is what we make.
Climate Scientist | Distinguished Professor, Texas Tech | Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy | Author, SAVING US
What determines how much climate change we will see is not the physical science or even technology. We have what we need to reduce emissions. Our barriers are entirely political and economic -- and such obstacles can be overcome. To effect systemic change, we must use our voices to advocate for that change: through voting, yes; but there is so much more. As individuals, we have the ability — and, we would add, the duty — to influence, shape and inform through advocacy, activism and informed dialogue. As the French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote, “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” Read more of my essay with Michael Mann here: https://lnkd.in/eWPUdQC3
