it must be harnessed n ot only todenounce the world as it is, and build fleeting pockets of li berated space. It m ustbe t he catalyst to actually bui ld t he world t hat will keep us all safe.

We are also significantly less isolated t han many of us were even a decade ago:

Free mar ket ideology has been discredited by decades of deepeninginequality and corr uption, stripping it of m uch of its persuasive power

And the real surprise, fo r all involved, is t hat we are so m uch more than wehave been t old we are--that we long for more and in t hat longing have morecom pany t han we ever imagined.

We will win byassert ing that such calculacions are morally mons trou s

They won by asserting that th ose rights andfreedoms were too valuable to be measured and were inherent to each of us.

"What, to t he Amer ican slave, is your 4th ofJuly?"

interdependence rather than hyper- individualism,reciprocity rather than do min ance, and cooperation rather t han hierarchy.

"Denial can-and I believe shou ld -beunderst ood as t estament to o ur hu m an capacity fo r empathy, compassion, and anunderlying sen se of moral imperati ve to respo nd , even as we fail to do so."

Paradoxicall y, this may also give us a better understandin g of o ur personalclimate inaction, allowing many of us t o view past (and present) failures withcompassion, rather than angry judgment.

the very process of arguin g fo r auniversal social safety net opens up a space fo r a full-throated debate about values

what is overwhelming about the climate challenge is that it requiresbreaking so many rules at o nce

severing so many of us fr om the brnader co mm unities whosepooled skills are capable of solving problems big and small

we si mply cannot imagine being part ofany mobilizat ion of that depth and sca le

we are afraid-with good reason-t hat ou r polit ical class is wholly incapable of seizi n g th ose tools and implem enti n gt hose plans

Activists were, quite simply, everyone.

extraordinary levels of social mobilizat ion

t he need fo r a redistri bution of wealth

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climate change can be the fo rce-the grand push-that willbr ing together all of these still living m ovements.

is precisely why ou r world is asfundamentally unequal and unfair as it remains.

s a chance to change all that; and co get it right thi s time.

represent no thin g less than the unfinished business of the mostpowerful liberation movemen ts of the past two centuries

a real end to the fossil fuel age offers n o equivalentconsolation pr izes to the major players in the oil, gas, and coal indu stries.

Washington broke its prom is

n o nviolent tactics like boycottsand protests played major roles, but slavery in t he Cari bbean was only outlawedafter numerou s slave rebellions were brutally suppressed, and, of course, abolitionin t he United States came only after t he carnage of t he Civil War.

com parable to the m odern globalecono my's reliance on fossil fuels

Both of th ese transfo nn ative m ovem ents fo rced ruling elites torelinquish practices t hat were still extraordinar ily profitable

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o n a scale comparable to what the climate cr isis calls fo rtoday.

the victo ri es that remained elusive were th ose that, in King'swords, could n ot be pu rchased "at bargai n rates."

the legal and culturalbattles were always more successful than the econo m ic on es.

but also at least o ne ''yes."

truly daunting speed and scale

So if there is any hope of reversi n g these trend s,glimpses won't cut it; we will need t he climate revolution playing on repeat, allday every day, everywhere.

we n ow have a clearglimpses of the kind of dedicat ion and imaginat ion dem anded of everyone who isalive and breat hing du ring climate change's "decade zero."

the largest green group in t he world was itself drilling fo r oil.

Admittedly, m uch of it ispainful.

early manifestations of this resistance

To arrive at t hat dystopia, all we need to do is keep barreling downthe road we are on.

only m ass social m ovem ents can save us n ow

likeliest source of "friction "

adopt a certain set of dynam ics t hat does n ot fit within the capitalistculture.

Direct Acti on Activism

There isno reason we should be forced to accept a solution informed by that same system.

We as a nation must undergo aradical revolution of values.