The connotations around the word activist are usually negative. The word ‘climate activist’ conjures up images of young college students throwing cans of soup at expensive artworks, storming the stage at a concert or fashion show, or flashing their bare chests to get the point across.
I mean, have you watched a Greta Thunberg speech?
And now there are the Pro Palestine activists—a kefia wearing, flag-toting bunch who block freeways, set themselves alight, throw red paint around and carry fake dead babies. Yes.
The optics around activists aren’t the most encouraging, and they are viewed by the rest of the world as a group of individuals who, for some reason, feel way more strongly, beyond all sense of rationality, about things.
Yes, sure, the world is burning up. Sure, thousands…
