Charity and Climate Change: Are We Addressing Environmental Crises and Philanthropy Correctly?
<p>Looking at the ‘charity appeals’ I get the feeling that something is wrong. The problem is not the charity itself, of course. What I don’t understand is this idea of perpetual stasis, in which nothing changes except feeling a little better for having done our bit.</p>
<p>I even have the fear that this remote charity is like a leash, because it is complicit in a narrative of things that doesn’t seem to want to change: would you ever want to be the one receiving it? Let others receive it.</p>
<p>I start this way, because I had the same feeling hearing David Attenborough’s words about the repercussions of climate change: “it’s the poorest of the poor in the world, and this includes poor people in wealthy societies, who are going to be the worst hit.”</p>
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