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Planetary scope, imagination, and some mistakes.
Remember the early 1980s? (Or have you heard about them?) Before the fall of communism, an electrician in Poland built a movement to challenge it. At one point, Lech Walesa and his movement Solidarity were crushed and appeared defeated by the Polish government. Walesa was in prison and Polish leader Jaruzelski seemed to have renewed his grip on power. The Solidarity movement was, after all, just a band of electricians challenging a well-armed and long established communist dictatorship.
On the evil side, a group of terrorists bombed the World Trade Center to no avail a few years before 9/11 brought down the twin towers.
Ultimately, Solidarity defeated the communist dictator. And, tragically, terrorists succeeded in destroying two giant buildings in Manhattan, killing thousands.
Doing big things is hard and doesn’t always succeed the first time, or ever. But when the need is great and the danger of inaction cataclysmic — as it is with the current climate crisis — every effort must be made, and we must not be stopped by fear of making mistakes.
To change the current world order that is rapidly destroying the climate will require a movement that grows to a worldwide scope, a movement powered by imagination and vision, and people who are not…
