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View this email in your browser & share Hi Reader, How many times do you comment on the weather, and the conversation turns to how abnormal it now is? Be it hotter, cooler or more random, we know that climate change is upon us, and the need to restrict carbon emissions to safeguard a stable climate future is more real than ever. “For decades, the world has heard the climate story—warnings, targets, distant deadlines. Too often, the response has been clouded by noise: delay, distraction, denial.” - UN This week, on June 5th, it's World Environment Day. Each year, the United Nations picks a theme to promote action around, and you probably guessed it’s a global call for climate action. The 1.5% target to not overshoot has been lost, but there are still many things happening to progress us to a less-than-bad climate scenario. Solar and wind now outpace coal in some markets, signalling a major shift towards a green energy future, and action on climate change resilience could unlock $18 trillion in opportunities. One of the big things about climate change is that it’s not just affecting the weather patterns—that is a symptom of the many interconnected natural systems that rely on a stable climate to provide nature-based services such as reliable food crops, pollinators, ocean currents, etc. The climate is just one of the nine planetary boundaries that intersect to keep our Earth home stable. Right now, Europe is experiencing an extreme heatwave, as the world's largest ice sheet is about to break free, with predictions that this will cause sea levels to rise by up to 6 metres. We are living in a time of great climatic disruptions, and the need to act is greater than ever.Yet we have political regression and leadership inertia. As individuals, it can feel completely overwhelming and distressing to know that we are not collectively making the changes needed to ensure a safe future for us all. Our team developed the free Eco-Anxiety Toolkit to help people process these complex feelings. Addressing our own individual emotional responses, anxiety and even despair can create the space for divergent thinking and the release of energy for action. This is one of the biggest challenges in this complex crises arena we are in: the overwhelming nature of the interconnected issues can create a sense of apathy and avoidance. But political forces are not permanent, and the future is not defined. So, we need to be designing solutions for the world we want to inhabit, not the one thrust upon us, leveraging whatever resources, skills and communities we have access to in support of climate action. To support, everything* is 50% off at the UnSchool Online from June 5-7These are the 3 courses we recommend if you want to get your head around the complexity at play:
Use code enviroday26 for 50% off all UnSchools toolkits, books, courses and learning tracks. 50% valid for the first month of any subscription. Offer valid between 5-7June 2026. It's true that it's not one individual who can bear the responsibility......especially when so many of the ultra-wealthy have abandoned any moral responsibility for their own contributions. But we are individuals who make up a collective group with the power and capacity to contribute, rather than opt out of being involved. We need each other to take action to maintain momentum. We know that the climate is changing and the world will not be the “same” as it was in the past—but we are all a part of this story. We can each and collectively work toward redesigning the narrative and contributing to outcomes that co-disrupt or overtly disrupt the unsustainable systems at play. |
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Activating sustainability and systems change by design, we share content designed to support the transformation to a sustainable, circular future.