Thank you for your kind reply. I appreciate it. We all have crappy environmental records. :-) Last year flew to Scandinavia, drove 4000 km through Estonia, Fin

Thank you for your kind reply. I appreciate it. We all have crappy environmental records. :-) Last year flew to Scandinavia, drove 4000 km through Estonia, Finland, and Sweden in a 300,000 km old diesel Volkswagen van. Yeah, that was a skidmark on a white couch. The right kind of volunteers can make a difference. It's more like we have to form a life cult where people do the research, do the planning, take the action to make change happen. For example, have rewilding yards to show the demonstration to your city Council to show what you mean and give them a proposed code change that's not threatening but has a right mix of carrots and sticks. Just watch the ADU conflicts on zoning changes, that tells you a lot about what you have to do. On lighting, a small group of 10 people over the course of a year did all the right things politically and got a small city here in Massachusetts to convert over to proper nighttime lighting. Now they're working at replicating that success in other communities by training people how to find the decision-makers, to volunteer for the right committees to understand how to communicate without offending or triggering reflexive action. I think what we need to do is replicate the success of crazy Republicans at building occult and political force. I don't know how to do that, it may be distasteful but there's no denying their success. I feel like many of the points you raise are in large part "failures to communicate". As a friend says I'm great at process, I'm great at design but I have no skills in the political and we need people who are good at the political and work with the people who are good at design.