This book will advocate for constructive feedback and accountability, not exclusion, and gives you the tools to do so. There needs to be room for companies to make real changes and re-emerge with improved practices, even if they have been deemed to have transgressed.
As I delved deeper into this topic, both at work and privately, I began giving talks on the speaker circuit on the topic of ‘cancel culture in climate’. To my pleasant surprise it resonated strongly with many. So many individuals, executives and organizations are failing to act on climate not because they don’t want to, or that they don’t fear the risks associated with climate change – they very much do.
Rather they are failing to act, or failing to talk about their work, for fear of attracting the wrath of the cancellation purists. If you zoom out from a delayed action in leadership, to a whole organization, to a region, to a sector, to a country, to a world, you begin to see just how dangerous and damaging this is, given the short window of opportunity we must slow and halt climate-warming emissions and disasters.
We must transform the way we approach climate action by eliminating shame and greenwashing. It will take all of us, but the opportunities are endless. We start today!
