Just sitting with the members of Extinction Rebellion and discussing the emotional side of the climate crisis spurs me on more than reading the morning news, an overload of terrifying photos and even scarier statistics. While both XR and the wider sustainable fashion movement have issues to address before their missions can be fully realised – accessibility, classism and racism, for example – on the whole, big public actions shouldn’t be criticised. What they’re doing is admirable, and while not all of us can take time off work to stage die-ins on The Strand, we can reduce how much we buy (try one week at a time and see how you go; perfection isn’t the aim) or, better yet, find our community. Hopefully, they'll pull us out of the darkness just in time to take action.