I Didn’t Believe in the Fight; the Fight Made Me a Believer

[Intro]
What can one person do about the climate crisis?
Isn't that the question?
What can one person do about the climate crisis?

[Verse 1]
What can one person do about moving a piano
From the street to a third floor apartment?
What can one person do about the need for a bridge
Not a picture of the river from an artist?
How can that artist win the Superbowl?
How can my personal habits dismantle capitalism?
What can one person do about the climate crisis?
A question with an answer
Even if we don’t like it
Nothing
So let nothing be an entrance
A clean slate
Seize the day and accept it
‘Cause nothing has never been a reason to give up
It’s a reason to ask a better question
And I don’t know anyone with the answer
But I think a lot of people got pieces of it
And we discuss it
More as a direction
And less as a destination
The goal is not perfection
It’s collective liberation
And hey
You know what the lightning strike moment was?
When I realized there isn’t one
Just growing up
No roadmap, just showing up
And cracking our knuckles
Even with all the trouble that’s hanging over us
Funny how the ones highest up
Are the first to surrender
When the valley starts to flood
Some would rather be right than be useful
But even when we lose
The fight is never futile
And what’s crucial: we crew up
It’s like, I didn’t believe in the fight
The fight made me a believer
And yeah, never underestimate the enemy
But never underestimate us neither

[Outro: B Ferguson]
In these poems... they illustrate that the climate crisis was caused by longstanding societal crises and injustices like racism, white supremacy, misogyny, queer-and-transphobia, local and global wealth inequality, etc. They illustrate that addressing racism and inequality is the same as addressing the climate crisis. They often connect the crisis with other narratives of resistance like abolition, gender equality and queer rights. These poems illustrate that you cannot face the climate crisis without facing what made it, and often illustrate that injustice lives at the center of our societies, and so our societies must be rebuilt, totally. Not just shifted, but rebuilt