Resilience needed (Languages & climate strike, 2)

The begin of the climate strike week (Wp) yesterday (20.9.) was without a strong signal. Guardian pages show the events from all over the world. Really? But this not possible, no single organisation (in this case a newspaper, with a strong web-presence) can cover the whole world. There a several (logical) reasons, why this not possible (complexity, space, time etc), but this blog focus on language and therefore I show from this angle. From Germany this page looks different, as a (German) live-blog shows (Stern). Germany was probably one of the countries with the strongest climate strike actions, which this page shows. The Wikipedia page cited above reports that 1,4 Million people took part. But it is way too early to speak from a unprecedented event: the 1990 saw similar big events, but the movement failed until now. One can speak of a failure in three aspects:

1. No instituional change (esp. in the USA) 
2. The figures are still pointing in the wrong direction
3. No international broad coalition 

After the growing influence of the environment movement in all Western countries did the election of Al Gore fail in the year 2000 (Wp). At this stage environment issues played only a minor role. This collection of the Guardian show the enormity of the problem (now): The very active environmental organisation 350.org (Wp) has its name from the scientific hypothesis that all above 350 ppm (parts per million) carbon dioxide is too high reach the climate tipping point. Therefore it can be said that mankind is now in "uncharted territory" in relation to the world climate (see this article of the Guardian from 2017!). And if, really (big) IF the western countries would find a way to deal with the climate crisis (climate change is indeed to euphemistic notion for the situation mankind is in now), there are still a lot of places, where the people are not taking part at the climate strike. The climate strike maps shows, where this spot are.  While Europe and the USA show a lot activity, other parts of the are less busy (at least with striking for the climate): the Arabian countries, Russia, China. I know not all events are covered here, the march I took part yesterday, in Nagoya (covered on a facebook page) is not linked on the map, so it could be more. Also the Kenya-facebook page is not linked, so they are more. But still a lot of people in a lot countries are not on strike (in some countries the people simply can't effort it to strike). But also in the Western (OECD) countries the situation looks bleak. So what to do? One possible way is building up Resilience in different ways. This needs a transformation of our (world-)society and therefore it is a way to build for the future.