Living Through A Transition

How good can we get at embracing change?

This weekend, the United States, alongside the rest of the world, was met with the news that Joe Biden will step down from his presidential candidacy and be replaced by his current VP, Kamala Harris. His supporters and the democratic party celebrated his brave and humble decision and posts of his achievements as president soon began to circulate.

He was called the “Climate President” as he has, as a matter of fact, been the US president who has done the most for our planet. He passed the most ambitious climate plan in history and has taken over 322 environmental actions.

Post: Time For Better

So thank you, Joe, for all your work in office, and for your courage to step down. Now we quickly need to turn our eyes in a different direction, namely on Kamela. And it’s time for us to get excited! Because if Trump is threatening to undo all that has with climate progress to do, Kamela is aiming for the opposite. As this article in The Guardian puts it:

Kamala Harris could set ‘new high bar for climate ambition.’

And the support for what could *hopefully* be the first female US president has been enormous. Democrats have poured more than $100m in donations into Vice-President Kamala Harris' presidential bid since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday. — BBC

If that doesn’t say new hope, I don’t know what.

Source: CNN

Living Through The Transition

Without stating the obvious, we’re living through a transition, but it’s not just the Democratic Party learning what it means to turn quick corners - we all are. And the better we can get at reading the terrain and taking action on where the future wants to bring us, not on what we committed to in the past, the sooner we can gear ourselves into an even better tomorrow.

As I always say when it comes to our challenges of meeting the climate crisis, it has, and always will, come down to our ability to embrace change:

“We need fear and worry to remember why choosing change is necessary in the first place, but then we also need curiosity, excitement, and joy to find the motivation to keep trying. We must dream big, act boldly, and continue to grow and nurture our hearts. We have to choose change, again and again, and again, until it becomes so natural it’s simply what we do. We say yes to change.”

— The Climate Optimist Handbook