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    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 todayMake a contribution to support the Guardian’s independent journalism and our unique commitment to climate reporting
    by Rebecca Solnit Mar 15, 2019 4 minutes
    ‘The real lessons of history is that change often comes in unpredictable ways.’ Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

    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.

    What climate activists are asking for is a profound change in all our energy systems, for leaving fossil fuel in the ground, for taking action adequate to the planet-scale crisis of climate change. And the rules we are

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