"𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠."

These words struck me. I was talking to IPCC author @wolfgangcramer as part of the train tour promoting my book Science in Resistance.

After we sang the Dies Irae together at SR's concert by the Eiffel Tower, commemorating yet another failure of global #climate politics at #COP30, we both traveled south to Marseille, where I presented my book Science in Resistance.

Wolfgang told me how, back in 2022, he and 11 other #IPCC and #IPBES authors met with President #Macron. After sitting with him for two hours, alerting him about climate and societal breakdown, and the need to urgently transform our economies away from infinite growth, they achieved nothing. No change in mind. No change in policy. Nothing.

This, to me, perfectly illustrates why appealing to power is no longer something we should be doing as scientists, as academics and generally as change-makers.

As I explain in my book, we need to build #power instead - In both the streets and inside our work and living places, democratizing them, decolonizing them and making them fit for social and ecological change. And crucially, pushing them towards exnovation - dismantling all the fossil structures keeping us depressed, isolated, profitable, and in chains.

You can get my book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/science-in-resistance/paper

To learn more about fossil exnovation, you can check our NSU study circle on the topic, and sign up for our upcoming winter session: https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/