Eric Braxton has a great article in the April 2019 Present Time on movement building and policies. [See “Climate Change, Capitalism, Movement Building, and RC” on page 26, or go to <www.rc.org/publication/present_time/pt195/pt195_026_eb>.] He points out that policy changes, without the strength of a movement behind them, don’t move things forward very well.


That made me think about how good policies can be changed or removed when a new government comes into power. For example, Australia had some good agricultural climate-change-mitigation policies that were removed when a conservative government was elected.


Seeing good policies reversed has been hard for me. Eric’s article was a great reminder that even good policies are not much good without a mass movement behind them.