I’m living in a bubble

“It feels a bit like I’m living in a bubble. For example, I’m on the ecological committee at our school, and I spend a lot of time with the people I know from there. Anyway, I’m in that kind of high school where people live in a kind of bubble anyway where they think about those [environmental] issues and people want to feel they are on the right side of history on those things, you know. I’m not saying it’s bad, it’s good. Anyway, in a bubble where people are pretty aware. Yet I do have that kind of friends, my best friend for example, who just says they can’t and feels like there’s nothing one can do. They are pissed about why they should do anything when the biggest effects would come from vast corporations or whole states anyway. When they won’t, in any case, change anything big like pollution or such, then what could one little human being do? But, I don’t know, I feel and many around myself feel that anyway, some kind of weight lifts from your heart when you, at times, try to do something good for that thing.”

“Well, I also feel like I’m living in a bubble, in a way. Then every now and again, the reality kind of strikes and then I’m just totally shocked, like oh yes, it wasn’t so that most people were interested in these issues. It feels like in many cases, when I’m outside my own bubble, I get labelled, in a way, as if it were a funny thing, like that you are such a tree hugger and you defend some climate things and want some climate change action and so on. So, pretty easily you get labelled and that’s maybe not a cool thing. Especially among young people.”