This climate movement will catalyse urgent revolutionary policy to tackle the crisis. More people will begin to demand a better world that works for everyone. The call to protect the planet will become a rallying cry as climate strikes around the world continue to escalate. Read about why rage, not hope, might be the emotion that brings about bold climate action. To cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.īuilding on New Zealand’s pioneering policy, 2020 is the year we acknowledge that the most urgent thing we can do in an emergency is to Read about New Zealand’s new climate target. One of the boldest climate goals in the world: Which was almost immediately followed by the country adopting It only takes 3.5% of the population to bring about political change.Īpproximately 3.5% of the population participated in climate strikes in autumn 2019, There’s a huge amount of bravery to know that perhaps life even gets richer and deeper in unexpected ways. There’s a huge amount of courage in opening up to redefining your existence. Read Emily Johnston’s essay Loving a Vanishing World.
Letting go of the life you thought you were going to have Read Mary Annaïse Heglar’s essay about the link between climate change and other existential threats throughout history. In a climate emergency, courage is not just a choice. This is a story about our journey to 2030 – a vision of what it could look and feel like if we finally, radically, collectively act to build a world we want to live in. Gathered with the help of friends from around the world. There are an infinite number of possible paths ahead of us, and what follows is just one of them, Get to zero emissions globally as quickly as possible. Still, the most important number is easy to remember: – and not enough attention on collective stories of a better world.
HUMAN APOCALYPSE 2030 SERIES
In a series of widely read essays, Bill McKibben has written about this kind of terrifying climate math. A big part of why this crisis has spun into an emergency is that there has been too much of a Our choices become of hugely magnified importance.ĭuring the 2010s, climate science grew increasingly dire, pointing towardĪrriving more quickly than previously thought. I’ve learned that predicting human behaviour is impossible, and in a climate emergency, Read a survey of the last 50 years of climate inaction. I want to map out a possible path for what this decade could look like, if we do what we need to do.Ī half century of institutionalised climate denial and delayed action, As a writer, I’ve always chosen to let the scientific truth that we exist as an interdependent community of species on a finite planet guide me. So, I want to map out a possible path for what this decade could look like, if we do what we need to do.Īs a trained meteorologist, I used current evidence to predict future events. Radical imagination could help us begin to see that the power to change reality starts with changing what we consider to be possible. Our story of the 2020s is yet to be written, but we can decide today whether or not it will be revolutionary. “Once the imagination is unshackled, liberation is limitless,” she writes. Read a blog post from UC Press about the power of Octavia Butler’s speculative fiction, one of the key inspirations for adrienne maree brown’s work.
The power visionary fiction has to change the world. Read adrienne maree brown’s writings on ‘radical imagination’.Ī term used by US author and social movement organiser adrienne maree brown, describes Have shown that storytelling can change the course of history. What is human civilisation if not the result of all the stories we’ve been told?
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