Inspired by this fantastic question from Founder & CEO of the climate storytelling nonprofit, The Good Energy Project, Anna Jane Joyner (highly recommend you follow!)
What's the Best Verb to Face the World? To generate. To solutionize. To reparate. To mobilize. To face the crises. To repair And revolutionize. To change ourselves To change the world. And to re-emerge. To reclaim, to respond, and to restore. To remedy. To interconnect. To paradigm- Shift. To powershift, remediate, and catalyze To phase. To renaissance. To re-alchemize. To phoenix. To reclamate. To herald. To era. To embark. To spark. To ignite. To transform it all. To give land back. To make our own magic— renewable From the power of the beautiful. To sun- Rise. And zephyr. Every earth electricity Of the soul. To fuel by basking together To energize in each other's light and world. To disambiguate, it’s said There are no magic words For all we can save From fossil fuels burned There's no magic string Of words, of gold, of maze To lay-out, to lead the way To face cataclysmic change In words alone— that’s not a thing. So, what do I mean? To galvanize, to decarbonize Maybe there is a magic string Of worlds. Of ways there. In the Worlds. In the Ways We could relate. We could Dance. With our ancestors We could honor their advances Awake. How close we are to Ancestors! But we can speak Share and seek truth, a magic We make with sunlight, solar- Like. The biomimicry we need To inspire the ways and worlds Aloud. Say, now. What if it's not Just one old idiomatic saying, But a combination? No single Word magic like no one silver Bullet. To pierce. Hearts to Fight. To set the world alight With love. To change what We need to change, shouldn't Feel so violent— should it? But What matters most? And, they Will ask, what will it cost? Not More than the markdown on Our futures. Surely, there is no one Magic word silver bullet. Of course We need a barrage of glinty shots. We need a system loaded, locked Care in our cannons, and cavalry The same way there is no silver bullet The heart must be held not once But a thousand times over and over. A showering that flaps and beats and breathes silver to become the heart Itself. Until infinite, until emissionless, Limitless pain, to face with limitless love. Wait. Hold on. There are words. Here! Generating. Solutionizing. Reparating. Mobilizing. Facing each crisis. Repairing And revolutionizing. Changing ourselves Changing the world. And re-emerging. Reclaiming, responding, and restoring. Remedying. Interconnecting. Paradigm- Shifting. Powershifting. Remediating. Catalyzing Phasing. Renaissancing. Re-alchemizing. Phoenixing. Reclamating. Hearlding. Era-ing. Embarking. Sparking. Igniting. Transforming it all. Giving land back. Making our own magic— renewable From the power of the beautiful. Sun- Rising. And zephyring. Every earth electricity Of the soul. Fueling by basking, together Energizing in each other's light and world.
— Adam Powers