I’m going to politely disagree. We should be afraid, but not the helpless feeling you describe, but an actionable, productive fear.
I totally agree that we should move forward and have that fight response. The thing I’m bringing up is, that a lot of us have a freeze response instead of the fight response you’re talking about. I think that’s what a lot of people in my area have too, I live in Seattle. I’m not speaking for all freeze responders but I need concrete action steps to follow to get me out of it. I was testing out AI a month or so ago, and every question I asked had action steps as a response. I asked the AI why they did that, if they were programmed to do that. AI said that it was mostly what their training material did.
You’re saying get angry and loud, but at who? My state already is doing a pretty great job at the governor level. I guess what I’m asking for isn’t how bad we’re doing things, it’s obviously pretty bad. But what are we doing that’s working and how can everyone build on that? If it works, I don’t care if big oil makes money off of it but you’re making a good case that it doesn’t and it’s a facade for them to get more money. Who can we support then, and how? Who’s doing it right?