What will you do?

We are undoubtedly going to hit 1.5c+. It's going to take all of us in our day to day, our jobs, those we work with and our communities to make a difference on this. Collaboration is key and taking any action is essential. To quote Joan Baez 'the antidote to despair is action'. I've spent 20 years at the forefront of climate action through creativity. I'm upping my game but I can't do this alone. Whether we have children or not the next few generations will be in a hotter, more unpredictable, climate breaking down world. I hear people say what can I do. What's the point, I have mentee's with eco-anxiety (yes that's a thing and it's going to get huge for our young people). The point is you can do something, small actions at home, bigger actions in your workplace, getting your company to switch to ethical pension for instance is 21x 21x more powerful than giving up flying, going veggie and switching energy providers and it's so easy to do. Plus guess what... it has better returns than fossil fuel, arm's buying standard pensions. And that's just one of many simple things that can be done, don't always use a car, for instance, walk - it's good for you and good for the planet. Plus slow down and so many more things.

I choose to make a difference every day but I need you all to join me. I know, who wants to even read or hear this especially as I'm usually all about optimism but there is a chance we can do this and we get to look back and say we made a difference while living. So call it realistic optimism with a can-do attitude. I will be cycling to COP26 Ride to Change to see if our governments have any spines and sense to truly commit to the change we all need to see in our world. But let's not wait for them after all it is COP26, there have been 25 before... how many more will there be!?

Image from UNFCC.

Here's something we created a few years ago. www.climate-emergency.com feel free to use it and share it.

Here's something I co-founded, our next online event is on September 16 2021, www.goodfestcornwall.com join us, it's free for PL and TR postcodes but we want people from all over the world to help us shape the www.sustainablecreativemanifesto.com for all. If you need a discount code to attend send me a DM. Thank you for taking the time to read to the end.