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Another fictional (prescient?) story about how we save the world.
We hadn’t worked it all out in advance. Not by a long shot.
But we had a plan of sorts. Whenever we hit a roadblock, we’d add another piece to the plan. Sometimes we anticipated what would be needed. Sometimes not. But we’d always do whatever was required.
We had no choice — the survival of our climate-damaged Earth and everyone’s children depended on our success.
Anyway, we’d recruited a fairly large and boisterous group of Saners — people committed to ending fossil fuels, defying authorities everywhere and putting climate scientists and young climate activists in charge of a worldwide emergency program to rescue and repair the planet.
But we were kind of stuck. Because our next step was to encourage fossil fuel workers to quit — ideally starting with a few high profile executives, but then followed by a flood of front line workers.
We wanted a shortage of refinery workers and miners — this would be the trigger activity to speed the end of fossil fuels. We would reinforce our message, or more accurately, enforce it, by holding a general strike. A large number of people would stay home until our demand was met.
The demand?
