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~tatterdemalion

I've been reading "How To Blow Up a Pipeline", and in the chapter I was reading at bedtime last night, the author, Andreas Malm, discusses the doomer position --- that because it's clear that even to the extent the climate crisis can be mitigated, it *won't be*, the most important thing people can do is learn to die well. Malm rejects this position because it's demotivating, arguing that there *is* hope, if climate activists learn to strategically escalate.

As for me, I disagree that there is hope, but also that we should let the lack of hope lull us into inaction. I just think that at this point, the proper motivation for activism is spite.

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