Adam Stoner

How to become a climate activist


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Understand the problem

  • Watch Climate 101 with Bill Nye
  • Watch Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth
  • Read This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
  • Keep an eye on respectable news outlets and recognise and accept that extreme weather events and climate change are inextricably linked
  • Find out more about global carbon budgets and what happens if we exceed them by reading Global Carbon Budget 2019
  • Read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on what happens at a global warming of just 1.5ºC
  • Understand the solutions

    • Accept there is consensus. 97% of peer-reviewed climate scientists agree climate change is human-caused.
    • Watch Al Gore’s 2017 documentary An Inconvenient Sequel
    • Read Project Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
    • Read How Bad Are Bananas: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee
    • Research zero-waste living. Research plastic-free lifestyles. Research recycling schemes in your area and fossil fuel free sources of power (I use use Bulb)
    • Act

      • Swap to products and companies that share your newfound values
      • Weigh your options and cut your own carbon footprint
      • Read This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
      • Read No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference or watch a speech by Greta Thunberg
      • Read On Fire by Naomi Klein
      • Donate to an environmental not-for-profit
      • Plant trees (US: One Tree Planted / UK: Offset Earth)
      • Write to your local elected representatives and ask what they’re doing to address the climate crisis. Press them. Keep pressing them. Fire them if they don’t act.
      • Write to your local business leaders and ask what they’re doing to address the climate crisis. Press them. Keep pressing them. Boycott their companies if they don’t act.
      • Refuse to debate the science. The climate crisis is fact and we have no time for liars or self-preservationists.
      • Go on a climate march
      • Go on climate strike
      • Tell others about the climate crisis (and feel free to share this page to help inform them)
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