Climate change is NOT your fault. Not really....
How to turn responsibility to opportunity for change!
I’m honored to say I recently had the pleasure of being a guest at Newsweek’s Better Planet Podcast.
I was brought on to talk about how to shift the narrative on climate change, but we got to cover so much more.
For instance, we talked about:
Why we must recognize that it’s not OUR fault climate change is happening, and how to go from responsibility to opportunity for change.
Why individual actions matter and the ripple effect they create.
Why striving for perfection doesn’t work and why we must be kind to ourselves in this work.
Why climate change shouldn’t be a politically divided topic and why the nature of politics should change.
How do we get better at being wrong?
More people will be living in cities by the middle of this century — and that’s actually a good thing!
In Other Optimistic News:
U.N. Panel Says Children Have a Right to Sue Nations Over Climate
Young people around the world are increasingly taking their governments to court for failing to reduce climate pollution, and on rare occasions, they are winning.
This week, their efforts received an endorsement from an independent panel of experts that interprets United Nations human rights law, the Committee on the Rights of the Child. In an expansive 20-page document released Monday, the committee said all countries have a legal obligation to protect children from environmental degradation — including by “regulating business enterprises” — and to allow their underage citizens to seek legal recourse.
It doesn’t have the force of law, but is notable because it is based on one of the most widely accepted international treaties.
That treaty is the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is considered the most widely ratified treaty in history because every country in the world except the United States has signed on to it. In the past, courts in many countries, including on rare occasions the United States, have relied on the committee’s interpretations in their decisions.
“Children have the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment,”
the committee wrote. “This right is implicit in the convention and directly linked to, in particular, the rights to life, survival and development.”
— Exercepts from The New York Times
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Brilliant stuff, so glad I found you (and thanks to Substack too). I believe that your world of youth must be safeguarded, with help from those of us who have blundered in the past. I will always promote your cause. Peace, Maurice
Wonderful interview, Anne! Just listened!