How to become a climate activist by Adam Stoner

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This was published in 2020. It may contain outdated information, broken links, and views I no longer hold.

Understand the problem

Watch Climate 101 with Bill Nye
Watch Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth
Read This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Keep an eye on respectable news outlets and recognise and accept that extreme weather events and climate change are inextricably linked
Find out more about global carbon budgets and what happens if we exceed them by reading Global Carbon Budget 2019
Read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on what happens at a global warming of just 1.5ºC

Understand the solutions

Accept there is consensus. 97% of peer-reviewed climate scientists agree climate change is human-caused.
Watch Al Gore’s 2017 documentary An Inconvenient Sequel
Read Project Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Read How Bad Are Bananas: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee
Research zero-waste living. Research plastic-free lifestyles. Research recycling schemes in your area and fossil fuel free sources of power (I use use Bulb)

Act

Swap to products and companies that share your newfound values
Weigh your options and cut your own carbon footprint
Read This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
Read No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference or watch a speech by Greta Thunberg
Read On Fire by Naomi Klein
Donate to an environmental not-for-profit
Plant trees (US: One Tree Planted / UK: Offset Earth)
Write to your local elected representatives and ask what they’re doing to address the climate crisis. Press them. Keep pressing them. Fire them if they don’t act.
Write to your local business leaders and ask what they’re doing to address the climate crisis. Press them. Keep pressing them. Boycott their companies if they don’t act.
Refuse to debate the science. The climate crisis is fact and we have no time for liars or self-preservationists.
Go on a climate march
Go on climate strike
Tell others about the climate crisis (and feel free to share this page to help inform them)

07 February 2020

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