Climate Change Requires More Than Individual Solution

Change your lightbulbs. Buy a hybrid. Recycle.

These are just some of the actions we were told to take over the past couple of decades to do our part for the climate, especially after the release of Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The dominant liberal narrative asserted that these small changes in individual consumption would be enough to avert climate catastrophe.

That was a lie.

It’s easy to see why this was the solution pushed by the liberal establishment. Since the 1970s, we’ve been inundated with messaging prioritizing individual action over that of governments and larger social systems. Eventually even centrist and center-left political parties like the US Democrats, UK Labour, and many more like them gave in.

Read the Radical Urbanist story by Paris Marx - “Climate Change Requires More Than Individual Solution.”