THE CITIZENS’ CLIMATE REVOLUTION

“Unite in a national effort to save from destruction all that makes life itself worth living.”~ MacKenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister during the Second World War

We need nothing less than a climate revolution, and that revolution begins in your head. Enter our new podcast series, The Climate Revolution. This is the first of a series of episodes about finding your role in the climate revolution. This episode is dedicated to all the climate action campaigners who have burned out after being involved in a decade-long fight for a safe climate that so far appears to have led to nowhere. The graphs are still rising: carbon emissions are going up, global temperatures are going up.

The aim of this podcast series is to provide you with “the Why, the Who and the How.”

Understanding precedes actionThe climate action movement needs a change of strategy. The premise and a fundamental principle for the way we approach the community must be that understanding precedes action.

“We need to see the threat clearly, see the solutions, and have a plan,” Dr Giselle Wilkinson tells us. “And that package of threat, solutions and plan lets you hold fear.”

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Mik Aidt: “What is the role of a dad if not to protect his children – to give them the best opportunities I possibly can?”

“One thing has become clear: the powers-that-be will not choose to stop climate and ecological breakdown. They will use the right words, but only to delay. Therefore it is up to us. We have to up our tactics. The advantage we have, and that we must keep building, is numbers.”~ Peter Kalmus, NASA climate scientist

Trust

“This has become a matter of trust – we need to collectively deliver on that.”~ Alok Sharma, COP26 president, about the coming United Nations Climate Summit in Glasgow in November 2021

“Coalitions between people who haven’t worked together, or between national and local players, require trust. Trust takes time. Time to break down the stereotypes (“blokey” unionists, “demure” Christians, “hippy” environmentalists) and time to discover where the common ground may lie,” wrote Amanda Tattersall, an Honorary Associate at Department of Geography at University of Sydney, in 2015.

“Without trust we are lost.”~ Christian Nikolajsen, Danish tourguide and consultant

Podcast content – in order of appearance

00:05 Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General00:25 Movie clip: Marvel, Thor: Kaorg speaks to Thor about revolution (also at 53:52)00:46 Jose Ramos: “What is my role and my place?”00:54