The climate crisis is one of those massive, so-called “wicked” problems that can seem overwhelming when we think about it too much. That sense of powerlessness can make us feel as if we can’t do anything – what can we as individuals do, after all, in the face of an existential crisis? It’s enough to make us throw up our hands and do nothing.
A new global movement aims to change that feeling of powerlessness by setting us concrete challenges we can take to make the world better. The Jump is a grassroots UK-based campaign that has come up with six actions or “shifts” ordinary people can take for one, three or six months.
The shifts are based on a recent research report, The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World, which identified the most important changes we must take to prevent ecological collapse. And in fact, the authors say that these are also the changes everyone will have to make in coming decades to ensure we keep global warming to safer levels.
The Jump’s founders say: “Our society is hooked on stuff and it’s destroying our planet, often without even making our lives better. Another way is possible! Our goal is a world of less stuff and more joy, where humanity is in
