A fixation on system change alone opens the door to a kind of cynical self-absolution that divorces personal commitment from political belief. This is its own kind of false consciousness, one that threatens to create a cheapened climate politics incommensurate with this urgent moment.
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Because here’s the thing: When you choose to eat less meat or take the bus instead of driving or have fewer children, you are making a statement that your actions matter, that it’s not too late to avert climate catastrophe, that you have power. To take a measure of personal responsibility for climate change doesn’t have to distract from your political activism—if anything, it amplifies it.
On that note you should check out demcifilter. It’s not HEPA but I haven’t dusted a PC in a decade using their stuff
I’m talking about things like this: https://www.cleanairkits.com/products/luggables
Yeah they do custom sizes, it’s just a supremely fine mesh, like you blow into it and it gets clogged with water droplets, that kind of fine. They sell filters to fit standard case sizes, magnetic or screw-in, but also cut custom sizes, they’ll cut a spool even