Painting roundabouts while the planet burns

Hello,

I'm emailing you because you took my climate messaging survey in the summer. I used initial results at an academic session on how we talk about the climate emergency. Your views were very helpful and got the right people talking.

Since then, Professor Iain Black of Strathclyde University has been crunching the numbers and come up with some very useful insights on how we can talk about what needs to be done to tackle this enormous threat.

It makes encouraging reading after the baffling past few weeks of people painting roundabouts, the Far Right on the streets, and politicians babbling about St George's Cross bunting and sitting in front of the Union Flag.

I'll be sharing the further survey findings in the coming weeks but before then I'd like to offer you the chance of joining a video conversation about them.

It's a webinar called: "Reducing Barriers to Positive Social Tipping Points". It's part of the Tipping Points Discussion Series, is free and will happen via video call. Iain and I will be joined by the illustrious Professor Gerard Hastings of the University of Stirling to talk about lessons we can learn from the fight against big tobacco and apply to the struggle for real action on the climate. I will also discuss my survey findings and what I think they mean so far.

If you are interested you can register here: https://tippingpointsseries.confetti.events/

Once again, thank you for helping my project,

Stewart Kirkpatrick

PS: One respondent asked me who I am so here's a short bio: I'm a ground-breaking innovator in high-impact mass mobilisation and communication. I'm passionate about empowering citizens and challenging power. I've worked for openDemocracy, 38 Degrees, Yes Scotland, and was Editor of scotsman.com 2000-2007.