Yes Ahley and Edward, you are right. Politicians will easily shift to the popular flow. Popular sentiment has enormous inertia which takes enormous effort and exhausting time to overcome. The good… - Kerry Landon-Lane - Medium

But if the majority of the population were strongly committed to taking serious climate action and pushed and insisted on it in a sustained way, then the politicians would be compelled to come along, leaving fossil fuel extraction without the government support that sustains it.
Why Aren’t We Trying to Save the World?
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Ashley Pallathra and Edward Brodkin
Kerry Landon-Lane
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Dec 23, 2021
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Yes Ahley and Edward, you are right. Politicians will easily shift to the popular flow.
Popular sentiment has enormous inertia which takes enormous effort and exhausting time to overcome. The good news is that once moving it continues to do so.
One way to push change along is to constantly point to the cost that each of us are paying NOW for not acting -- $2000 per household year? $3500? What will this figure be next year and the one after that? The issue has to be monetized and personalized.
Many thanks
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Written by Kerry Landon-Lane735 Followers
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OP-ED writer, designer and artist. Most recently returned to architecture and deliberately presents the subject void of buildings.
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