There is always a best and worse case scenario, so there is always a reason to try, but it is also very important not to waste energy on unimportant battles, battles that are already lost, and battles that are not already lost but also cannot be won. A lot of people are going to die unnecessarily shitty deaths after unnecessarily shitty lives because of climate change, for no good reason, and there is nothing I can do about it.

People like Roger Hallam in the UK have studied, devised, and are trying to enact a program for building a social movement against unchecked climate change. If he isn’t currently in prison I am pretty sure he has been sentenced to five years for doing so. I’m not convinced they have all of it right but if you are really interested maybe something like that is worth a look.

The most carbon intensive activity I can think of is warfare, and it looks like there is every chance that world war three hots up in the coming years. Good luck telling people not to burn fossil fuels should that happen. Or telling people across the ‘developing’ world they have to just sit there and die, rather than burn the fossil fuel reserves they have available to them. I am at peace with what I can and cannot change. I always found the Buddhist notion of ‘cause least harm’ as a useful mental tool to keep happy while dealing with my part in things. Making the decision not to have children for environmental reasons makes these decisions easier. I am not interested in what individuals like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk think. Their role in society (somebody is going to fill those roles within capitalism, not necessarily them) is only of passing interest because I have better things to think about.