I'm deeply sympathetic to the pain of the climate crisis, *and* if at this point, as a white person, you don't see how a community and justice lens demands that we de-center our own pain - our own exceptionalism - then honestly you haven't been listening. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-climate-crisis-is-worse-than-you-can-imagine-heres-what-happens-if-you-try

One white man's pain is not the story here. It just isn't. The story is the wildly disproportionate impacts of climate change on Black, brown and Indigenous communities and the transformational work that needs to be done - in community and in service of justice - to address this.

If any of this seems harsh or unsympathetic, it's not - we can have strong feelings about climate change *and* place them in context, with much love and intention. If this is new to you, start here, with @MaryHeglar: https://zora.medium.com/sorry-yall-but-climate-change-ain-t-the-first-existential-threat-b3c999267aa0

I'm not letting myself off the hook here. I've been guilty of this and it's an easy trap to fall into - whiteness teaches us, constantly, to center ourselves and our feelings. So make it a practice: work to honor your feelings *and* center justice and those most affected.