The Climate Movement & Desire
Climate Action is Hot with Desire; Embodied Desire is the Heat of Hope
No, We’re Not
We aren’t going to let all of the terrible political stuff happening in the US and around the world lead us to despair, or worse, indifference.
We aren’t going to let the opponents of true freedom keep us from our climate callings, to be Artist-Athletes in the greatest moral cause, the greatest cause of freedom of our time.
We aren’t going to let climate impacts drain our energy for action.
We aren’t going to let all the hope-stealing personas — the doomsters and the pessimizers and the fatalists and the deniers and the grifters and the silencers — steal our hope.
We aren’t going to let down who and what we love. To hell with that.
As I’ve discussed previously, right now there is a lack of intensity in The Climate Movement. But when kindled, our intensity will help beat back such despair and propel us forward. And indifference? To hell with that.
Desire
To fan the flames of intensity we have a secret resource: desire. Our desires create intensity. It’s time to tap into our desires and unleash our intensity propensity.
Here’s what we desire, and we’re not going to stop until we have them.
The last one, the L-word, is at the heart of our Movement and keeps us going when all else fails us.
All of this is what will drive our climate action forward until we have overcome climate change by creating a just and prosperous sustainability that enhances wellbeing for every and everything. This vision, our vision, is what we desire.
Our desires make us passionate.
Our desires for our values also create within us a depth that will see us through.
Embodied Desire
Desire drives us to embody the reality of justice, beauty, creativity, freedom — all our values.
Our desires brook no mere abstractions, no endless talk about such values that goes nowhere, no intellectual tail-chasing. If they never become real, then they are worse than worthless. As the old saying goes, talk is cheap. But not just cheap. It’s deadly in the real world, an inaction-enabler.
Desire is the antidote.
Desire drives action. The reality of what we desire, embodied desire, creates a better world, especially for those we love. We desire our values come to life because of our loving relationships, because that’s what we want for who and what we love. Like those who have come before us, we desire a better future for our children and their children and every generation thereafter, which is why we affirm the Better Future Covenant.
We Already Have What We Need
Friends and fellow Climate Action Artist-Athletes, we have what we need to become what we are called to be.
From out of the destructive swirl and untapped potential of our current political moment we will arise like the phoenix, driven by our desires, propelled by our passion, sustained by our love.
And from our desires will come our three forms of power to change the world on all of our Olympian Fields of Action, especially on the field of politics and policy, on which we all have a role to play.
Driven by our desires, our three forms of power will deliver the needed speed and scale of transformation that, guided and empowered by our desires, simultaneously creates a just and prosperous sustainability that enhances wellbeing for everyone and everything.
Desire & Hope
My friends, your desire may be visible for all the world to see.
Or not.
Maybe even you don’t know it’s there. Maybe even you think it’s gone. Snuffed out by the daily grind, the God-awful news, the ascendancy of those profiting from our destruction.
Let me tell you something. If you’re reading this, you care. You give a damn. That’s passion from desire. You give a damn because of your desire for a better world. That’s where climate action to achieve our vision will come from. From our desire. It’s still there, waiting to become passion and action.
Climate action is hot with desire. And from this desire and the action it spawns comes hope. Embodied desire is the heat of hope. And when we combine our desire with the desire of others who want the same thing we become the hope we’ve been waiting for. With the power of our collective desire we make hope happen and our future come faster.
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