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about the greatest existential crisis humanity. i understand you re determined to do that. i just wonder whether you would reflect on what caroline hickman, the psychologist i was talking about, says. she says, the human psyche is hard wired to disengage from information or experiences that are overwhelmingly difficult or disturbing. do you think there is some truth in that? oh, yeah, no, i m sure there is truth in that. and that s why we have to be endlessly creative to try to reach people. and what you find within civil disobedience, and within the whole movement of which i consider myself a part, is a great flowering of creativity. people constantly trying to find new ways to break through. and sometimes we do. you know, if you look at the tremendous success of fridays for future, which was stifled by the pandemic, but right up until that point, when the pandemic came along, it was just growing and growing and growing and reaching parts of the media and parts of the political mach
exactly the other way around. if i were to lie to you, if i were to say, actually, it s not so bad, yeah, i m sure it ll be fine, you know, wejust had to make a few little micro consumerist tweaks here, stop using plastic straws, stop using cotton buds, and then that ll be fine , that would also put people off because people would say, well, i m not being spoken to honestly here, and i don t believe that what you re advocating is in any way commensurate with the scale of the problem that you re describing. we have to be straight about this. we have to tell the truth about the greatest existential crisis humanity. i understand you re determined to do that. i just wonder whether you would reflect on what caroline hickman, the psychologist i was talking about, says. she says, the human psyche is hard wired to disengage from information or experiences that are overwhelmingly difficult or disturbing. do you think there is some truth in that? oh, yeah, no, i m sure there is truth in th