Cop27 is here and the climate crisis is daunting but here’s the key to tackling it – cheer up

‘Fall in love with nature… If you don’t have a garden, find a friend who does and help them.’ Photograph: rbkomar/Getty Images

My dear fellow environmentalists,

With the Cop27 summit about to be begin, can we please think about how we talk about the climate crisis? The scale of it is there to see – it can’t be missed – but haven’t we read enough books and attended enough events where we are told, once again, about the historic causes of the problem, the intransigent complexity of the problem and the inevitable worsening of the problem? Given a little more time, I swear that most speakers would detail the length, depth and height of the problem. It is depressing. It doesn’t help. Please stop.