I may not be able to do much about grievous injustice in the world, at least not by myself or in very short order, but I can decide to increase the weight on the leg press machine by twenty pounds and achieve that within a few weeks. … As the climate crisis accelerates, with the land heaving beneath us and burning around us, I expect that many of us will continue to find comfort in whatever small bodily obeyances we can muster. There is solace to be found there.

XREF: Connects to ideas about agency and scale — the contrast between micro- and macro-change echoes discussions of locus of control and coping strategies in times of crisis.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 576