As climate activists we have to stop making people feel stupid for not being more informed around this topic. There are hundreds of millions of intelligent people, who aren’t taking this issue as seriously as they should be. I haven’t always passionately believed in resolving this, I cared the more I learnt about it.
Far too often the message comes across as “do you not see how serious this is you idiot” which is often born from frustration… Regardless of the cause, we’re confident that it’s not helpful when trying to get people to engage.
I’ve definitely let frustration get the better of me in the past (and I apologise in advance when it happens again) but I can relate to people on the receiving end. My brother, for example, has a knack for making you feel like a complete fool when he’s pulled out some obscure reference from Richard Head's Extended History of the Napoleonic Wars. If there’s one thing it doesn’t inspire me to do, it's read the book, and it’s exactly the same with climate change.
Far too often the message comes across as “do you not see how serious this is you idiot” which is often born from frustration… Regardless of the cause, we’re confident that it’s not helpful when trying to get people to engage.
I’ve definitely let frustration get the better of me in the past (and I apologise in advance when it happens again) but I can relate to people on the receiving end. My brother, for example, has a knack for making you feel like a complete fool when he’s pulled out some obscure reference from Richard Head's Extended History of the Napoleonic Wars. If there’s one thing it doesn’t inspire me to do, it's read the book, and it’s exactly the same with climate change.