The Climate Book and how I am trying to make a difference

On Sunday the 30th I had the pleasure of attending the global launch event of The Climate Book created by Great Thunberg at the wonderful Southank Centre in London. I have included a description of the book below.

Her speech and subsequent interview with Samira Ahmed was livestreamed and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube, Please take time to watch it. It is hard to describe the range of emotions from the evening - from despondency through to joy, ultimately leaving inspired and delighted to join the ranks of "activist". I would agree with Samira, Greta is the coolest 19 year old on the planet which will become evident if you watch the video.

Personally I now need to translate the knowledge and motivation I have gained into action. Am I doing as much as I could from a personal perspective - certainly not. Am I doing as much I could from a professsional perspective - again, sadly, not. What I have done is developed a Carbon Self-Evaluation in collaboration with some wonderful people I now call from freiends from The Project Data Analytics Task Force - Jonathan Williams , Dr Jo Jolly , Grant Mills , Grant Findlay and Alex Robertson . A previous LI article describes what it is and you can read it by clicking the image. Using carbon as a proxy for climate change action, the self-evaluation helps individuals to benchmark themselves and their organisations against others in terms of the access to, skills, quality and available solutions in relation to data. Full details of how to complete it are included in the article.

Book description from the Penguin website

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.

In?The Climate Book,?Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried?

We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.