Reply To: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/20/manifesto-youth-climate-strikers-win-fight
George Monbiot’s version.
A central task for any campaign is to develop a narrative: a short, simple story explaining where we are, how we got here and where we need to go. Using the narrative structure common to almost all successful political and religious transformations, the restoration story, it might go something like this.
“The world has been thrown into climate chaos, caused by fossil fuel companies, the billionaires who profit from them and the politicians they have bought. But we, the young heroes, will confront these oligarchs, using our moral authority to create a movement so big and politically dangerous that our governments are forced to shut down the fossil economy and restore the benign conditions in which humans and other species can thrive.”
Here is mine
“The world has been thrown into climate chaos, caused by capitalism and the politicians they have bought. But we, the younger generation will change the economic system by advocating the socialist alternative to create a movement so big it will end capitalism and then we can restore the benign conditions in which humans and other species can thrive.”
I’m sure others can express the narrative story so lets hear it and base our approach to communication upon it.