This is the fourth Special Bulletin produced by PIMA’s Climate Justice Education group, indicating an ongoing engagement with planetary issues. It is becoming ever more evident that the great unravelling of the world as we know it is much more than ‘a climate crisis’. There are many alarming descriptions of the future, with a recent survey of 380 leading climate scientists showing that 77% of them `feel despair` when looking to the future that threatens life on Earth because of inadequate, serious political intent. (Guardian UK 8 May 2024) A new word – polycrisis – has been coined referring to the tangles of global environmental and social dilemmas accumulating, mutually interacting and worsening. All aspects of lives and livelihoods are affected by the climate emergency, and to respond effectively, we must confront and address patriarchy, settler colonialism, neo-colonialism, neoliberal globalisation, imperialism, racism – all the ideologies that negate life and together contribute to exacerbation of the crises. But to do this we need to educate/activate differently, not through the head alone, but also through heartfelt actions which bring laughter and joy.

Read the bulletin here.