Don’t get me wrong I would love to see her run for office. I think it would need to be something with authority though to do as much good as she is now.

Like Prime Minister or whatever they call the top position in her country.

Even if she didn’t win, she could move the needle a lot.

But that’s just one country, what she’s doing now moves the hearts and minds of folks globally.

There’s politics and establishment politics.

What Greta is doing is a political act, it raises global awareness, which puts pressure on politicians to act or risk losing their offices to folks who will.

I’m not making an argument. I’m learning to identify with a bigger picture for my sanity.

My heart weeps greatly for all of the species that are going extinct on this planet.

And I find some hope that life itself will continue here, even if it’s not complex life. Life has survived extinction events before. Life is adaptable.

I’m trying to be less attached to the form life takes, because I can’t stop climate change.

So it’s something that gives me peace. It’s not an argument that what is happening is right. Because it’s not.

I have a kid too, and it eats at me.

But I find comfort in the fact that life will carry on, even if my kid can never have the future I hoped for him when he was born.

It’s what gives me some comfort. Taking a larger perspective than just worrying about how humanity will fair.

Civilization doesn’t equal the world. Life will carry on and heal from the damage us ‘smart apes’ have done in our hubris.