Want to fight for climate action but feel daunted or powerless? Try this | Tayo Bero

The scale of the crisis is intimidating. But most people are already members of organizations - like our employers, universities, unions or religious groups - that are great avenues to fight for concrete climate results

For anyone hoping for some optimism about our dying planet, the recent Cop26 climate summit left much to be desired. Developing countries were severely underrepresented at the conference, and only a third of the usual number of delegates from those countries was able to attend, due to Covid restrictions, a lack of affordable accommodation and accessibility issues.

As the race to save the planet continues, much of climate action rhetoric these days remains split between personal calls to action - such as recycling or cutting down on individual consumption - and calls for governments, corporations and international organizations to wind down fossil fuel production, switch to renewable energy on a mass scale and protect key ecosystems that can help mitigate the effects of the climate crisis.

Tayo Bero is a freelance writer