I Want To Fix Climate Change

I am a climatic activist with Fridays for Future, and I have seen how harsh reality is.

Lots of people do care about others, empathy is one of humanity’s greatest virtue. They do get sad when they hear that children are dying on the other side of the world. However, they quickly discard that feeling and keep on with their lives as if they never knew. Maybe because that knowledge has no survival value, or maybe because it can threaten our happiness and therefore it triggers an egoistical response which enables quickly forgetting about it.

Thus, the problem is that awareness is usually transitory. So rather than unequipped, I’d say we are simply drawn to ignorance, to oblivion. (Is that part of human nature? Ignorance vs. reason, I wonder which side the scale would tip in to).

That is why it is so important to rise our voices and demand a revolution. Or we will keep ignoring the problems (not just the climate crisis, but also poverty, injustice…) till it’s too late (it already became too late to prevent the climate crisis, but we can still slow it down and reduce its impacts). Scientific facts and philosophy are the best tools we have at our disposal.

We don’t need people to hear, we need them to act.