Climate change has become an issue so catastrophically large that people have begun to give up on it. What could one person possibly do on their own? Well, nothing. Which is exactly why social cohesion plays an imperative role on the road to end climate change. Both Kathleen Dean Moore, nature writer and philosophy professor, and Bill McKibben, environmentalist and founder of 350.org, believe that this is the most crucial point in time to get involved in the movement. If we do it right, we could potentially alter the outcome of the future for the better. So how does one go about changing the future of humanity? Bill McKibben would say you need to go out and “make a little noise” (1). You need to grab peoples attention and not let go. Moore sees a separation of “what people want from what they really care about” where we see prioritizing the clothes we wear instead of the decaying world we leave behind for future generations (7). Charles Duhigg, reporter for the New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, would hand over his three-step process where social change occurs in waves, starting small then spreading through weak ties. But what if we could take all these ideas and put it into one? In order to achieve widespread social change and potentially end climate change, we must take elements from McKibben, Duhigg, and Moore and use them in combination.
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