How a campaign to spur climate action offers an antidote to apathy
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February 14, 2024
Our planet Earth is in trouble — 2023 was the hottest year on record at 1.48 degrees Centigrade above pre-industrial averages, a trend that continues in all parts of the globe. This leads to a toxic combination of extreme weather, critical changes to Earth systems, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. This is recognized by the private sector, government, academia, international organizations and civil society in this year’s Global Risks Report.
The 2024 Global Risks Report is a perceptions survey of risk. Extreme weather, threats to food and water, sea level rise, humanitarian crisis — these impacts are already being felt in many parts of the world. Indeed, extreme weather is the second most prominent 2-year risk in terms of severity too.
In such a world, hope can feel like a naive daydream. In the face of these impacts, it is natural to feel overwhelmed, anxious or paralysed. Indeed, eco-anxiety is a normal and healthy response to existential threat. It can seem comforting to bury one’s head in the sand or blithely wish that someone else – anyone else — with more power, knowledge or resources will rise to the occasion and save the day. The irony is, in the absence of hope there is a tendency to freeze up and surrender exactly when the opposite response – action — is imperative.
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/02/performing-hope-nature-and-climate-crisis
