Thank you, climate strikers. Your action matters and your power will be felt | Rebecca Solnit

Nothing is possible without action, and almost anything is when we rise up together, as you are today

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I want to say to all the climate strikers today: thank you so much for being unreasonable. That is, if reasonable means playing by the rules, and the rules are presumed to be guidelines for what is and is not possible, then you may be told that what you are asking for is impossible or unreasonable. Don't listen. Don't stop. Don't let your dreams shrink by one inch. Don't forget that this might be the day and the pivotal year when you rewrite what is possible.

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