💡 The Larger Us

Handling the climate change and Covid-19 as a community

Hi, it’s Diana Fox Carney here.

If we are to address the enormous challenge of climate change, we need a total commitment across society, we need to activate everyone. What we see, instead, is that climate change has become one of today’s most polarised issues.

In the live briefing we hosted on Earth Day, 22 April, we discussed what tackling the climate crisis as a community entails. Alex Evans, the founder of the Collective Psychology Project (CPP), presented a framework for bringing together psychology and politics in new, creative ways, to tackle some of the biggest problems facing humanity.

All members have access to:

• Notes from the briefing below,

• A recording of the briefing,

• Our upcoming briefing on the hydrogen economy—RSVP here

Agency, belonging, conscious self-awareness

Alex believes that political polarisation, significantly driven by threat perception, is the defining issue of our time. With polarisation comes increased anxiety, which further increases polarisation, thereby, creat…