This article, which cites my article, tries to make the case that COVID proves that the climate movements shift to structural change over individual action was a wrong turn. They’re wrong. And I doubt they read my article. https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2020/04/21/earth-day-individual-climate-impact-198835#click=https://t.co/RQH6qMcnhY
First of all, no one who has argued for structural change has said that individual change was meaningless. In the very article cited here, I argued that it was definitely necessary.
Also if the COVID crisis proves anything about structural vs individual action it’s that individual action is meaningless without structural change. Social distance alone has not and will not solve this crisis.
Furthermore, we would not have the levels of social distance we have now and that have done so much good if structures had not been put in place to enable it. That, my friends, is structural change.
Lastly, lifting the individual guilt for climate change is not “bad politics” as the author suggests. It’s simply the truth. And we should tell it.
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