5-13-22:
Get Real About Climate

Read this week's email blast from The Ecologist:

"The mood is changing in the climate movement. It’s clear that an increased sense of awareness and urgency met with the inaction and uselessness of politicians is fueling frontline activism, direct action and civil disobedience.

Just six years after the Paris Agreement targets were set, we are already close to breaching them. As global temperatures increase, the likelihood of 1.5 °C of warming will create extreme weather conditions, creating the loss of key ecosystems and increasing freak weather occurrences.

I was particularly moved by Professor Julia Steinberger’s account of giving a climate change talk to a group of teenagers and being shocked by their pessimistic response. “Why are you talking to us and not the politicians?” one student had asked her.

It’s clear that we are experiencing collective grief over our lost habitats and ecosystems. Just this week, The Guardian revealed that 91% of corals in the Great Barrier Reef have suffered bleaching, after a report released this month documented the extent of the sixth mass bleaching event on record. 

Is there a way we can digest all of this information whilst remaining hopeful?

According to Jane Goodall, in an interview with Satish Kumar published in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, “Hope is about action. If we lose hope, that’s our biggest disaster.”

Students are taking action at Renaissance, organizing a Beef Free Week. What can YOU do?