1. Feed your feelings on facts

Beware of feelings that aren't based on facts.

I run across a lot of emotional responses to inaccurate analysis of the situation.

Sometimes these are responses to nothing more than a vague apprehension that we're doomed.

One of the curious things about the climate crisis is that the uninformed are often more grim and fatalistic than the experts in the field – the scientists, organisers and policymakers who are deep in the data and the politics.

Too many people like to spread their despair, saying: "It's too late" and "There's nothing we can do".

These are excuses for doing nothing, and erase those doing something.

That's not what the experts say. There is so much we can and must do.

We still have time to choose the best rather than the worst scenarios, though the longer we wait the harder it gets, and the more dramatic the measures are required.

We know what to do, and that knowledge is getting more refined and precise, but also more creative, all the time.