The climate change strike in uptown Waterloo on Sept. 27 raised awareness and got people talking about climate change, which is a good thing. But what’s a lot more important but a lot more difficult to organize and be a part of is the action that is taken after a strike like this. How can we build off this energy, this unity?

“Seeing the strange in the familiar” is the first part of sociologist Peter Berger’s two-part definition of the “sociological perspective” that was introduced to us in an introductory sociology course I took at the University of Waterloo.