Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 5)

Part four explores how the public can easily draw very different conclusions and argues that the climate movement must undertake mass education to ensure these lessons are learned. Movement-Run Education SystemsThe poor policy response to the pandemic reflects the lack of faithful representatives of public interests in government. We need movement-run education and media systems that offer regular programming to communities across the country. In the past, climate activists viewed the organization of demonstrative actions like sit-ins and marches as their main work, and over the past few years organizing around elections has gained increasing focus. Activists cannot let the lessons highlighted by the coronavirus crisis disappear in the fog of mainstream media’s induced amnesia.