Updated Best Practices for Climate Crisis (February 2026)

Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion Seattle.

Nation = None (Updated February 2026)

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

Accelerated Warming Math = Eliot Jacobson -- "2.0 [degrees C above year 1850 baseline] may come in the late 2030s" [unless various tipping points are crossed making it much sooner].

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

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.