Pauline // Learn // Another End of the World is Possible

Transcription automatique à partir des sous-titres YouTube (en).

[00:13] it's the end of the world as we know it it's the end of the world as we know it and I absolutely hope it isn't but I feel fine either way well feel finer if it's not the end of the world as we know it but come to accept that that you can only do what you can do um you can only change you can change in each day you can only do the best you can do and it's better to do it you feel better doing it than not doing it I do I don't need the guaranteed results to do it because it's great just doing it anyway and even the word hopeless has hope in it and I think there is a lot of Hope because I think um deep in each person is the desire to to do what's right for the world what we did first of all was we went around meeting scientists and then just

[01:07] meeting scientists and trying to learn from them but the scientists did not know how to adapt their language or how to put across facts and ideas and I mean scientists are wonderful I'm not saying scientists aren't wonderful but they really did not seem to have the capacity to adapt their language um and to put across the ey to communicate on climate change so we started the group one of the young people came up with the idea of calling it right to know we have a right to know and that um adults who know must find ways of putting across the information to us so a lot of the work is around finding imaginative ways of putting information across and that's become real fun it's become very creative and very Visual and very involving lots of

[01:56] games and young people have started to design their own games so then they are sitting in a group they wouldn't have sat in a classroom but they will sit in a group completely willingly because it's a totally different Dynamic I find that working in a different way on climate change issues has brought about a change in them they've grown in confidence because they feel rather than just shoving something down the neck you're just saying this information here are you interested in it and you um you're showing Respect by finding ways of communicating it to them first I used to feel really frustrated because I felt quite alone I felt a penny had dropped I think climate change Penny had dropped but I don't necessarily move in circles or didn't in

[02:53] those days move with in circles with people who were involved in climate change activities in fact I didn't really know anybody so it's just me on me own trying to convince my friends and and things in fact I can remember being out one New Year's Eve and thinking this next decade is the decade that will decide the future of humanity I'm feeling quite miserable and all my friends just getting really drunk so I used to feel quite alone but nowadays that's really changed today I feel there's a total acceptance that this this could all end terribly and it might not but I seem to have found in the personal changes I've made and the friends I've made in working on it and things like that um more contentment as you know almost to have become happier

[03:37] in the course of some sort of personal changes because of it all it I think it's an opportunity to re-evaluate what we're doing as a world community you know as a world Community there's been a period that's been about consumption that's been about consumption that's just based on getting things using things selling things making profits and that leaves people feeling pretty empty inside as well as just eating away at what's of value in the earth it's it can't carry on that way and it will destroy itself if nothing does change the the idea that we need to keep buying and keep consuming in order to be worthwhile people or to feel all right about ourselves I feel free of that and I think that's a real freedom