Green revolution: how I learned to be an eco warrior, one step at a time
by Josh Appignanesi from Science | The Guardian on (#6CNXW)
I was in denial about climate action - until I realised that you might just have to despair to care...
Have you ever felt, Climate breakdown, argh, oh shite"? And then felt, But what am I supposed to do about it?" And then spent an hour listlessly researching electric cars, before getting overwhelmed by the whole extinction-level endeavour and doing sweet FA?
My new film, My Extinction, charts my transformation from self-absorbed, guilty, inactive dad to self-absorbed, guilty, slightly less inactive dad. That is, it shows how a journey from total inaction to climate action turned out not to be as radically transformative as I might have supposed. And I mean that in a positive sense.
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