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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/pp_man69420 on 2025-09-20 21:02:41+00:00.

Climate change may be the biggest existential threat to the human race (and all living beings) since the last mass extinction. As the climate and environmental crisis worsens every day, movements for the climate and the environment seem to be “cooling down”, I have myself saw it with my eyes, how in local groups of various organizations less and less people show up on monthly reunions, and we do a little amount of “direct” acts. This is further aggravated by the rising cost of living and the rise of fascism, I understand that people prefer to participate in an union that fights for regulating the housing market or other “day-to-day” rights rather than an organization that fights for the environment (I know they are not mutually exclusive).

This situation begs the question: when will we see a rebound of the environmental fight, and will it ever get radicalized? For example, it’s a fact that the pace the energy transition is being carried out is way too slow and the current system will (and can’t) make it happen faster since it would mean to negate capitalistic and private interest. For example, if we don’t dismantle any coal plant, and they keep running as intended for all their projected usable live, they will roughly emit 330 GT of CO2, enough to heat up the planet up to +2ºC. I feel like the only way to tackle this problem, if the system doesn’t change, is, simply put, to start blowing up coal plants (and many other things).

Also, we are at a very special moment where we still have time to change our future, but we are seeing the first consequences of climate change on our lives.

Is the only way out of the climate and environmental crisis the radicalization of individuals and organizations? When do you think it will happen?