I suspect that people’s “shut down” around the climate crisis has less to do with the enormity and severity of the problem than with the overemphasis on personal responsibility for such a severe and enormous problem. Just a hunch.

The overemphasis on personal action is so bizarrely unique to climate action. Reproductive rights activists don’t tell ppl to stock up on IUDs as a solution. Prison reform advocates don’t say “just don’t get arrested” as a solution.

Why? Because the problems are bigger, they are collective. So is climate! Our reliance on individual action is really just a willful fall into the trap of individualism. Time to stop falling for it.