Climate Change Is a Lost Cause, but It’s Our Lost Cause

E. Black
10 min readJun 1, 2023
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I came to climate change through food and grief and social justice. I will probably be talking a lot more about all of that in the coming months, as I embark on a new venture to re-tool my life as best I can to implement the things I’ve learned and come to feel so passionate about over the past couple of decades. It’s a much bigger topic than it may appear to be on the surface, but what I have been thinking about recently, in trying to learn as much as I can, is the hopelessness involved with even trying to care about climate change.

For a long time, I felt like it was a back-burner issue. Yes, it was important, but there were so many more immediate threats to so many people’s lives and freedom that I couldn’t see prioritizing it above all the rest.

I came of age in the Bush 2.0 era in the US — I was a junior in high school when the September 11th attacks happened and watched the ensuing maddening unfolding of a double-pronged attack on both American citizens’s rights through the Patriot Act, and on people outside the US via the ongoing and ubiquitous “war on terror”. At the time, it seemed to those of us who were young then that it was as bad as things could get.

It was bad. And all of that has become a legacy that has continued to twist and grow. And I won’t say that I was wrong for having the…

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E. Black
E. Black

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Top writer in Feminism. Writer and Translator. Living in a cabin by a creek in the North Country. http://www.followtherivernorth.substack.com

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