The world and its climate is going to hell in a handbasket.

Yep…I get and accept the science…and that we’d better not mess around too much in slashing our carbon emissions (and also stop plundering the rest of our planet’s resources).

However there is a vital missing message around the “I’m telling you something and you’re not listening” narrative which predominates at the moment.

That missing message must incorporate:

1. We can do this
2. We can do this together
3. We should be optimistic

Because a particular danger with the current climate change story is an impression that it’s all too late.

And if that’s the perception, could you blame anyone for an alternate course of action to fiddle (or party) while Rome burns?

Climate change action can continue to shout we need to do something.

But climate change action desperately needs a gateway metaphor – a term that encapsulates life-affirming responses PLUS hope.

Otherwise we risk not getting everyone, or anyone, onto the same boat – a boat taking us all in a different, doable direction.

So, as a plea (and something I’m more than happy to help unearth)…give me a climate change action story I can believe in and be a part of.

Give me a message of optimism – and I’m in boots and all.