I like the work of project drawdown and this is a nice gig -- but only for anyone with the papers to work in the United States. The dominant climate change stories are invariably written from a Global North, and usually Unites States, perspective. This is not a dig, just a fact. https://twitter.com/ProjectDrawdown/status/1298286914857062400

It’s not that there aren’t marginalised voices in the North, there are, and they should be given the keys to the climate comms kingdom. But why does the world have to read - and therefore care - almost exclusively about the climate violence in the imperial core?

What ideas might we in the North might be forced to reckon with if we regularly confronted the perspectives of peasant movements, indigenous peoples, and social movements in the South?

Perhaps we’d see a need to change not only how we talk about climate breakdown but also how we respond. Maybe we’d be less “pragmatic” when it came to our advocacy, lobbying, and campaigning. Maybe we would not celebrate the meagre offerings (usually greenwash) from corporations

I doubt we would have fallen quite so deeply into the false debate around “individual actions vs system change”, nor into the trap of talking about emissions, nor into the bigger trap of technological utopianism.

Anyway, none of this is a dig as I said, let alone a specific one against this organisation which does good work - just some questions that came to mind.