Updated Best Practices for Climate Crisis (December 2024)

Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion Seattle.

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” ― Gospel of Thomas

Nation = None (Updated December 2024)

Leader = Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ of Portugal (text version here)

City = Vancouver, B. C.

College = Middlebury in Vermont

Organization = Extinction Rebellion, 350.org, and Olympic Climate Action

Individual = Roger Hallam and Tim DeChristopher

Scientist = James Hansen, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Stefan Rahmstorf (A Shut Off AMOC -- Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Driven by a North/South Saltwater Density Pump -- “is a Distaster We Need to Avoid at All Costs”), Johan Rockström (on a +2 and +3 degree world), and Kevin Anderson (Jun 8, 2023)

Activist = Ken Ward and Valve Turners

Astronaut = Piers Sellers

Former Academic = Jem Bendell

Existential Risks = Luke Kemp

Sociologist = Dana R. Fisher

Humor = The Yes Men

Lawyers = Tim Crosland, Extinction Rebellion spokesperson and Director of Plan B.Earth, Julia Olson, executive director and chief legal counsel for Our Children’s Trust, Colette Pichon Battle, and Thomas Linzey

Organizer = Bill McKibben

Youth Climate Movement = Greta Thunberg and Xiye Bastida

Musician = Ruth Mundy, Ludovico Einaudi, and Coldplay

Rap Artist = Baba Brinkman

Writer = Thomas Berry, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Dahr Jamail

Artist = Pinar Yoldas, Sean Yoro (HULA), Ruben Orozco's Drowning Girl sculpture, Guy Denning, Lindsay Carron, and contemporary dancer Zol's plastic monster

Explainer = Dave Borlace (The heat may not kill you, but the global food crisis might! - September 17, 2023), and Climate Adam

Police Officers = Rob Cooper, John Curran, and Richard Ecclestone

Dance Performance = KT Nelson's Dead Reckoning 

Thinker = Paul Kingsnorth and Derrick Jensen

Economist = Manfred Max-Neef

Actuary = Sandy Trust 

Climate Prophecy = The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes

Movie Star = Leonardo DiCaprio, Joaquin Phoenix, and Russell Crowe

Banker = Mark Carney, Bank of England Governor

Innovator = Dr. Ye Tao (RF Alumnus of Rowland Institute at Harvard) for The MEER:ReflEction Project, Dr. Leslie Field

Oil Company and Media Family Reversals: Rockefeller Brothers Fund and James Murdoch

Irony = JP Morgan Economists David Mackie and Jessica Murray ("leaked report")

Graduate Education Programs = Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Masters of Advanced Studies in Climate Science and Policy (MAS CSP) and Princeton Environmental Research Program

Undergraduate Education Programs = York University's (Toronto, Canada) Bachelor in Environmental Studies; University of California at Santa Cruz; University of Washington, Seattle's Program on the Environment; and Australian National University.