Marcus Brigstocke on Climate Change
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Climate change is no laughing matter, but when all else fails, perhaps it's time to take humour a bit more seriously?
With the climate clock ticking we witness a seemingly endless cycle of public talks, journalistic comment pieces and debates on old turf, mostly reinforcing what we already know and fear.
You can read Jonathan Rowson's blog on the event where you can also get details of the report www.rsablogs.org.uk/2015/socia...
In a bid to generate a new dialogue that sparks enduring change, the RSA is embarking on a series of climate events with a difference, starting with a comedy night.
Humour has long been a powerful tool in the social-change arsenal, but is it powerful enough to help us break through the static on this colossal issue? Is 'laughing-it-off' just about evasion, or is it the key to transforming public perspective at scale, in time?
Working alongside BBC comedian and Sunday Assembly founder Pippa Evans, we have gathered a group of talented comics to inject fresh life and verve into what is often a technocratic debate.
Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Punt, The Showstoppers, Rob Auton, Jessica Fostekew, Holly Burn and Pappy's will help us think through how to reimagine the climate challenge, loosely based on RSA’s Seven Dimensions of Climate Change framework.
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This is bloody brilliant.
It was interesting to see the results of the impromptu poll taken with the audience about who is responsible for the issue of climate change. There really is such a diffusion of responsibility with this issue and that's why it's so thorny. It's like when there is someone injured on the street of a crowded city; no one stops to help because everyone thinks that someone else will eventually assist. Trouble is; no one ever does, because they don't think it's directly their responsibility. That has been at the center of solving this issue for so long. Responsibility needs to be assigned where it most belongs; the large scale corporate and state owned oil, coal, & gas companies. These institutions need to evolve or help solve the problem, because they are done for either way. Whether it's by governments dismantling their charters or large scale collapse of our entire ecosystem & civilization; their days of business as usual are numbered & they need to get a f*cken grip. Paying people to obfuscate the issue isn't going to change the laws of physics or fix the problem. Money isn't actually real, physics is. Is it so hard to understand that physical law isn't written by a greasable legislature?
2019 still relevant....
Voting for UKip was the best idea ever. You can't imagine how much carbon has been saved by the decline of the UK economy after Brexit.
@flashgordon6670
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I vote for ME.
Great stuff! I just wish you'd write something about the reality that this is all just a bunch of hysteria created to centralize more power. Change is coming. By the end of the hysteria, it may be all we have left.