Trump's goal is to increase suffering and death in future climate catastrophe. And he wants everyone to pay more today to ensure it happens.

Whether our democracy is saved, or our climate is protected is up to us, and the individual actions we all take.

In this moment of peril for our climate and democracy, we should never forget our agency, our personal power. We are the central actors in this battle to save our democracy and protect our climate.

Both climate change and democracy operate like systems where small contributions add up over time. Therefore, empowering people to act (agency) is critical, because the cumulative effect of many actions determines the final outcome.

Without agency:
Climate action stalls because emissions continue accumulating.
Democracy weakens because participation declines.

Individual agency in elections can be decisive in the quantitative aspect of protecting democracy as votes are cast and seats are won.

Since both climate and democracy depend on aggregated contributions, individual and collective agency becomes essential.

Democracy is quantitative because prevailing in elections requires accumulating votes and winning seats. When you add up the seats you can seize power. Again with democracy, human agency matters because every vote counts and all those votes add up to political power.

All of us working together can reduce emissions and by doing so, reduce the suffering from future disasters like sea level rise, flooding storms and heat waves.

Because climate change is quantitative and cumulative, individual human agency counts, particularly as it relates to passing and implementing consequential climate policy.

Climate change is quantitative because it is cumulative. Every ton of emissions released into the atmosphere adds up and makes the problem worse. That means all the emissions restricted and reduced also count toward alleviating the problem.

We are not passive observers. We have agency. It is up to us to solve these problems.

We all have agency in the fight to protect our democracy and to preserve a sustainable planet because both efforts are quantitative and therefore, people can feel a sense personal agency in solving both problems. Every thing each one of us contributes counts toward the final result.

How do I post in Climate Politics? Do I need to get an invite from someone?

If we are truly sick of Trump and his GOP protection cult, there is only one way forward: partisan mobilization. If we oppose Trump, then we are the Democratic Party and the only way we will end this corrupt regime is if we help the Democrats prevail this November. Let’s get this done, folks.

The more people we can get to vote blue, the sooner Trump’s authoritarian nightmare will end. No one should vote GOP for any office until the Trump Cult is extinguished.