Simon Gibbon – CASaV Steering Group Member / Waste Group Leader
During the 2000’s it was dawning on me that climate change was something we had to do something about, but it was only when I watched the film “The Age of Stupid” in 2009 that I realised that I had to do something now.
I decided that the most impact I could has was to stop flying, which coincided with a change in job such that from taking 40 flights a year, I took only 2 flights in 2010/11 and none since. Until 2022, my job still involved international travel but I was able to limit it to Europe and got everywhere from Moscow to Morocco by train and ferry.
A Gift for Conversation – Chapter 3 – What’s happened
Barry Warrington – CASaV Steering Group Member / Transport Group Leader
I first became aware of issues relating to climate change with the publicity centred around CFCs and their role in contributing to the depletion of the Earth’s Ozone layer.
Seeing the film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ by Al Gore in 2006 really brought it home to me that the world was facing a serious problem. At that stage I perceived it as a serious problem – Al Gore perceived it as a crisis. As more and more information has become available I now recognise that Al Gore’s terminology was correct – we now are all facing a catastrophic climate crisis.
When that realisation fully dawned I felt almost overcome by the enormity of what we are all facing. For a period it made me feel impotent in terms of a response.
Meeting a group of like minded concerned people via a Climate Action Group encouraged me to think that no matter how small the actions it was possible for me to take, was better than hopelessly doing nothing. I have to say however that I still feel that whatever I am able to do is not enough.
A Gift for Conversation – Chapter 3 – What’s happened
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Climate Action Stokesley and Villages 