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"I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change’s 2018 report on global warming drastically changed the way many
people thought — or felt — about the climate crisis. That report laid out, with
grim clarity, both the importance and extreme difficulty of preventing global
warming from reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Its
warnings about what was likely to happen to our planet if we didn’t turn things
around were severe.
The starkness of the I.P.C.C.’s report led to a surge of pessimism, fear and,
in response to those emotions, climate activism that hasn’t really abated. But
recently there has been a growing counterresponse to those darker feelings,
including from some experts who have a clear view on what’s coming — and that
response is a cautious optimism.
Though she doesn’t go so far as to call herself hopeful, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth
Johnson is one of those experts trying to change the mood. She’s a marine
biologist and a founder of the Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank focusing on
climate and coastal cities. She has also worked with the Environmental
Protection Agency and advised lawmakers on climate policy. Additionally,
Johnson, who is 43, is a leading climate activist and communicator. She was an
editor of the best-selling climate anthology “All We Can Save,” and her next
book, “What if We Get It Right?” which will be published this summer, is a
collection of interviews with leaders from various fields about promising
climate possibilities.
The question posed by that book’s title — what if we get it right on climate? —
is one I think about often, and skeptically. I’m not quite convinced that
people are motivated more by positivity than fear. But I would like to be, and
I was hoping Johnson could help."
Via David Byrne at
Reasons to be Cheerful:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
