The climate news makes you gloomy about the future.

Take this situation apart. Each piece goes in one box: yours, or not yours. There is no third box, and almost nothing falls in one piece.

Yours

Your own use, and your voice where you have one.What you buy, how you travel, what you eat, where your vote and your money go: small at world scale, complete at your scale. This box can be finished, and that is exactly the difference with the worries: those are never finished.
Promoting the despair to the conclusion that nothing matters.Gloom that rises at bad news is a first movement and not a choice. But promoting it to the final verdict that “it is pointless anyway” is a choice, and one with consequences: whoever judges so cancels exactly the part that was his.

Not yours

How the climate develops over the coming decades.That hangs on the sum of billions of decisions and on nature itself; even governments only partly steer it. This outcome fits in nobody’s box alone, not even that of the gloomiest reader.

The reasoning. The whole belongs to nobody alone; your part is small and entirely yours. Despair yields nothing; doing a part does.

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