08/07/2025
I remember buying David Suzuki’s books when I first began to understand what was then called “global warming.” After reading this latest article, https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/
I must say, I agree with him. I think the “fight” is over.
But, I wonder: was “fight” ever the right metaphor?
Battles create sides. And climate change, for all its urgency, has divided us. Perhaps it’s time to lay down the armour. Not because we’ve given up, but because there’s a deeper, more enduring response that’s been calling to us all along.
What if, instead of fighting climate change, we began building resilient communities? What if our focus shifted not just to survival, but to relationships with the land, with each other, and with all that shares our place on Earth?
Whether or not we pull off a last-minute miracle, this is what will carry us forward:
🌀 Resilient communities.
🌀 Communities rooted in place, purpose, and meaning.
🌀 Kinship networks that include not just people, but the creatures, the waters, the soils, the stories of the land beneath our feet.
And the good news is, we still have time. It starts small. Getting to know your neighbours and learning the names of the birds and the weeds. Noticing what grows, what struggles, what returns each season. Listening to Indigenous wisdom that has always known this truth: we belong to the world, not the other way around.
So here is the invitation: Let’s stop fighting climate change and start building relationships with the places we live, the beings we share them with, and the people beside us.
Let’s build something better than a battle. Let’s make a home.
