“I was living in Mauritania in the late 90s. She encountered a previously undocumented species of crocodile surviving in a very dry, desert-like environment in Mauritania, camping out for nights on end and sleeping on rocks above their caves to try to find them. And while science is the bedrock of everything we need to do around climate change, from that we need to communicate and share the message in a whole lot of more inventive ways than we’ve done up to now.”ĭr Tara Shine, Change by Degrees, says we need to change the conversation on climate change to get the message through to people.ĭr Shine, co-founder of Change by Degrees, an organisation which helps businesses become more sustainable, said that her stand-up experience was “way more terrifying” than climbing into caves with crocodiles in west Africa. “We’ve just thrown science at the problem. All of these are the tools we have not yet adequately used. “If it’s comedy that works for some, if it’s theatre for others, if it’s music and art. We need to find ways to engage everybody. We have to find ways to talk about climate change that are not all filled with despair and doom but that are hopeful. It’s fun to not take yourself too seriously. I had a friendly audience in the front few rows. “Once I was up there and got going I did quite enjoy it. That was the start of my comedy stand-up which was one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever done. And in anything else, I would have been fired, yet it was still my job. “I did it on why I was a failure basically in my work because I had been working at that stage on the climate for over 20 years and in all that time the problem had got steadily worse.
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