Change is hard to accomplish. When we see a problem in society and want to change it, it takes time and connections. In the movie Do the Math by Bill Mckibben, he talks about the effects that fossil fuel industries and the effects fossil fuel has on our environment. He also expresses the challenges that we face trying to end this crisis and how to begin to start this progress of change. McKibben states “My theory of change was I’ll write my book, people will read it and then they’ll change but that’s not how change happens.” (0:40) He expresses that he thought writing his book would get things going but in fact, it was much more difficult and complex than that. A movement doesn’t happen overnight. In comparison, in Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit he talks about how change is done from our strong and weak ties. Our strong ties are people that we are close to and weak ties are acquaintances. Both of these people are important to get a movement started. Duhigg explains that ” A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances.” (87) We can not start a movement with only our close friends. No one has enough friends to start any type of movement large enough to make a big change. Duhigg understands that we need people to make a change. Both Duhigg and McKibben talk about the same ideas and how we all want to get to the same endpoint, peace. We can’t have peace without starting somewhere and we can’t have peace without connections. With both of these things, we can reach our end goal.
