Current status
• Measurements with delay
• Scientific papers with delay
• IPCC reports with delay
• Climate itself acts with delay
• Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
Politicised process
Impossible to get unanimous consensus among 200 parties:
• Russia - UN Security Council veto
• Saudi Arabia, Quatar - oil
• Brazil, Argentina - beef
• United States - previous president climate change denier
Decades of misinformation
Screenshot from the hearing in the US Congress:
What is at stake
• collapse of life support systems
• irreversible changes destabilizing the societies and causing mass migration
• hunger for sustenance farmers, who rely on predictable weather patterns to produce their own food
Protest as an effective tool
We welcome everyone. Here is an example of firefighters in France
Conspiracy theoreticians
There is no ambiguity.
Confusion, doubt, uncertainty, misinformation - these are not helpful.
Russia could benefit from shipping routes in Arctic
— Mars Robertson ☀️🌱 (@marsxrobertson) April 23, 2023
Climate change denial could be Putin agenda
I need to know you are not a Russian troll
See an example of me: https://t.co/fdcYPGNhkx
Can you record the video saying:
“My name is ___ and I’m not a Russian troll supporting…
If you are not a Russian troll but genuine conspiracy theoeretician, please focus on these instead:
• 2016: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
• 2017: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers
• 2021: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers
Examples of affecting public perception
Radical change is possible
During WW2 steel, aluminum, oil were all reserved for military.
It is possible to repurpose economy towards climate change adaptation.
"Marshall Plan": rapid deployment of existing zero carbon technologies.
I'm inspired by #InsulateBritain @InsulateLove heroic actions.
— Mars Robertson ☀️🌱 (@marsxrobertson) April 9, 2023
Screenshot from a brochure about climate change adaptation.
Some jobs will go away (self-driving cars, self-driving trains, 🧠AI)
Some jobs will be created: insulation...
We need private sector and gov response. pic.twitter.com/verkf7FidQ
Existintential threat facing humanity
Snippet from the 2020 Doomsday Clock statement:
"Nuclear war and climate change are major threats to the physical world. But information is an essential aspect of human interaction, and threats to the information ecosphere—especially when coupled with the emergence of new destabilizing technologies in artificial intelligence, space, hypersonics, and biology—portend a dangerous and multifaceted global instability."
Independent media
Use your sensemaking. Find voices outside of the establishment, beyond an illusion of choice.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev
"Russian-British businessman, who owns the Evening Standard and ESTV (London Live). He is also an investor in The Independent"
"He derives his wealth from his father, Alexander Lebedev, a Russian oligarch and former KGB officer"
"The New York Times wrote in 2022, »nobody is a better example of the cosy ties between Russians and the [British] establishment than Mr Lebedev.«"