I’ve been feeling increasingly detached from climate-focused sustainability conversations. Because, after digging into the rabbit holes of Degrowth, intersectional environmentalism and so on, it’s become so clear to me that climate change itself isn’t the problem— it’s a symptom to a far deeper issue.

To be clear, science is important. Numbers are important. Climate science is very very important. But reducing climate change into a single, external enemy that we need to “fight” (an all too common word used in environmentalism) is insufficient in solving problems that begin from the heart of our collective worldview. Reductionist rhetorics can be seen as tools to mobilise certain parts of society, but in the long run, it’s important to keep the fuller picture in sight.

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