"A-Z of Hope: People-Powered Solutions to the Cost of Living Climate Crisis"

 A-Z of Hope People-Powered Solutions to the Cost of Living Climate Crisis #AI #LlewelynPritchard 3 September 2025

A-Z of Hope People-Powered Solutions to the Cost of Living Climate Crisis 
#AI #LlewelynPritchard 3 September 2025

“Civic Empowerment

Civic empowerment begins locally: knowing the names and needs of neighbours, understanding how local government operates, and participating in community decision-making. Grassroots advocacy involves writing to elected officials, organizing petitions and using social media to mobilize support for vital causes such as education, environment protection, and social justice. Education and connection - through workshops, discussion groups, and partnerships with schools or libraries - strengthen civic literacy and foster engagement in democratic processes. azcleanelections+2

Climate Justice Solutions

Climate justice requires transformative, community-led action that shifts power and resources, especially to marginalized groups. Solutions include: climatejusticetoolkit+1

  • Transitioning to community-owned renewable energy to shift away from fossil fuels and promote local autonomy and resilience. foei+1

  • Supporting Indigenous and women-led cooperatives, water justice projects, and sustainable agriculture initiatives—all fostering equity and climate resilience. qub+1

  • Redistributing power and challenging colonial, neoliberal, and patriarchal systems to create inclusive policies and ensure that polluters, particularly fossil fuel companies, are held accountable through emission caps and compensation. foe+2

Cost of Living Crisis: Community Solutions

Communities play a critical role in responding to the cost of living crisis:

  • Grassroots groups provide food, clothing, and emergency support, often stepping in where state or statutory services fall short. sticerd.lse+2

  • Initiatives like local food banks, winter gatherings, and support networks foster connection and combat loneliness while addressing immediate needs. ourwatch+1

  • Despite their impact, community action alone is not sufficient - structural change in wages, benefits, and economic policy is essential to truly solve poverty and inequality. tnlcommunityfund+1

Championing Equity and Driving Change

Empowering communities means amplifying the voices of those most affected by injustice and climate threats, and ensuring their leadership in designing and implementing solutions. Collaborative networks - spanning feminist, Indigenous, and environmental movements - build solidarity and push for policy changes that address intersectional inequalities. climatejusticetoolkit+1

Taking Action: A–Z Guide Highlights

  • Advocate: Write, campaign, and organize for local and systemic change. phoenixcollege.libguides+1

  • Build: Support community-run renewable energy and sustainable food projects. foei+1

  • Connect: Educate others and foster civic participation through local connection and celebration of achievements. thepolicycircle+1

  • Divest: Push for divestment from fossil fuels and investment in community-led alternatives. foe+1

  • Empower: Centre Indigenous, women, and marginalized communities in leadership and decision-making. qub+1

  • Fund: Support mutual aid, food banks, and direct grassroots action for cost-of-living relief. tnlcommunityfund+1

  • Hold Accountable: Challenge polluters, demand policy shifts, and ensure consequences for environmental damage. climatejusticetoolkit+1

These people-powered solutions lay the foundation for a resilient, equitable, and sustainable future driven by communities, not corporations. Sticerd.lse+2 “

Citations:

  1. Civic Engagement and Climate Politics: Brady, Cheskin and McGregor, 2020; Powers and Webster, 2021 open

  2. Climate Justice Education: McGregor et al., Environmental Education Research, 2021 research.ed

  3. Climate Justice Beliefs and Climate Action Linkages: Ogunbode et al., Nature Climate Change, 2024 nature

  4. Climate Justice in Higher Education: Kinol et al., 2023 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih

  5. Teaching STEM Through Climate Justice and Civic Engagement: Doucette, 2023 eric.ed

  6. Climate Stress and Anxiety Impacting Civic Action: Anneser, 2024 sciencedirect

  7. Public Deliberation and Environmental Empowerment: Molder, 2024 tandfonline

  8. Justice in Climate Change Education: Trott, 2023 tandfonline

  9. Working-Class Youth Participation in Climate Action: 2024 study nature

  10. Contesting Climate Justice in Urban Politics: Bulkeley, 2014 sciencedirect

Source: Perplexity


People-Powered Solutions:

🟥 A  Authoritarianism ⟷ Democracy  

  • 🥰 Solution: Strengthen democratic institutions, protect free media, and mobilize civic resistance (👿 Crises are exploited by authoritarian leaders to consolidate power, erode democratic norms, and silence dissent.)  

  • 🥰 Solution: Debt cancellation, fair taxation, and investment in public services. (👿 Crisis: Global South nations and low-income households are crushed by unsustainable debt and austerity.)  

  • 🥰 Solution: End fossil fuels, invest in renewables and ensure a just transition for workers. (👿 Crisis: Rising global temperatures fuel extreme weather, wildfires and human displacement.)


🟥 B  Big Oil's Greenwashing Empire  

  • 🥰 Solution: Adopt Doughnut Economics and wellbeing indicators to replace GDP as a measure of success. (👿 Crisis: Endless GDP growth crushes ecosystems, deepens inequality, and fuels climate breakdown.)  

  • 🥰 Solution: Enforce habitat protections, re-wild landscapes, and shift to regenerative practices. (👿 Crisis: Endless GDP growth crushes ecosystems, deepens inequality, and fuels climate breakdown.)


🟥 C  Climate Refugees and Human Dignity  

  • 🥰 Solution: End fossil subsidies, expand renewable energy, and democratize ownership. (👿 Crisis: Oil, coal, and gas drive climate destruction and geopolitical instability.)


🟥 D  Deforestation and Corporate Plunder  

  • 🥰 Solution: Recognize Indigenous sovereignty, Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC), and community-led renewables (👿 Crisis: Renewable projects and conservation schemes dispossess Indigenous peoples.)


🟥 E  Exploitation of the Global South  

  • 🥰 Solution: Heat-resilient infrastructure, community cooling centres and universal healthcare. (👿 Crisis: Heatwaves kill thousands, worsen inequality, and strain healthcare systems.)


🟥 F  Fossil Fuel Dependence: The Common Denominator  

  • 🥰  Solution: Rights-based climate policy, reparations and inclusive solidarity movements. (👿  Crisis: Structural inequalities mean the poor and marginalized face the harshest climate impacts.)  

  • 🥰 Solution: Invest in green industries, retraining and worker-led transition plans (👿 Crisis: Fossil phaseout and automation threaten millions of livelihoods.)


🟥 G  Greenwashing and Corporate Deception  

  • 🥰 Solution: Open access research, community science, and democratized knowledge sharing. (👿 Crisis: Corporate and elite capture of science and information blocks public empowerment.)


🟥 H  Human Rights & Climate  

  • 🥰 Solution: Respect fundamental human and environmental rights. (👿 Crisis: Peaceful climate activists treated as criminals.)  

  • 🥰 Solution: Treat as climate justice issues: prioritizing healthy food, affordable homes, renewable energy (👿 Crisis: Food, Housing and energy poverty)


🟥 I  Indigenous Land & Climate Sovereignty  

  • 🥰 Solution: Rapid creation and implementation of LandBack Climate Justice valuations in State legislation (👿 Crisis: Disrespecting Indigenous Rights and Sovereignty in a Cost of Living Climate Emergency.)


🟥 J  Justice and Accountability for Climate Crimes 

  • 🥰 Solution: Prosecution for CEOs and politicians obstructing climate action (👿 Crisis: Political leaders and CEOs fuel cost of living climate destruction.)


🟥 K  Klamath River Conservation  

  • 🥰 Solution: Legislate for human rights climate justice. (👿 Crisis: Unjust or complete lack of climate justice legislation.) 


🟥 L  Land Defenders & Indigenous Rights  

  • 🥰 Solution: Rapid creation of ecocide or directly equivalent legislation that means "unlawful or wanton (reckless) acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment" are punishable by law. (👿 Crisis: "Disaster Capitalism" (Naomi Klein) ignoring human rights and environmental Personhood (Nature's Rights.)


🟥 M  Movements for Climate Action & Justice  

“From the streets to the schools, the climate fight is everywhere.”  

  • 🥰 Solution: Demand good, exemplary leadership for all people and the planet. (👿 Crisis: Lying CEOs and politicians pursuing short-term gains for long-term pains with a wide variety of distractions from the truth)


🟥 N  Nuclear Power & Energy Transition  

  • 🥰 Solution: A sensible, relatively safe, well-balanced mix of technological sources of energy to meet increasing demand. (👿 Crisis: Appreciating the scale and size of global energy demand)


🟥 O  Ocean Acidification 

“Leadership Gone Missing” ⟷ “Oceans Can’t Wait for Politics”  


  • 🥰 Solution: Urgent, exemplary, coordinated leadership is needed to safeguard marine life and human economies. (👿 Crisis: Ocean acidification reveals political paralysis in addressing systemic drivers.) 


🟥  Opposition to Hydro-Electric Mega Dams 

“Poisoned Communities, Silent Crimes” ⟷ “Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Justice”  

  • 🥰 Solution: Dam removal and waterway restoration for ecological climate-health and human Indigenous rights. #StopEcocide (👿 Crisis: Unethical, unbalanced national response to increasing energy demand in the knowledge of causing widespread, lasting ecological damage and destruction accelerating the cost of living climate emergency.)


🟥  Protecting Sacred Rivers & Ecosystems  

“River protection is an inseparable struggle for rights, culture, and ecological survival.”  

  • 🥰 Solution: Protect our arteries of life-giving sacred waters that sustain all life. Defend human indigenous rights, cultural heritage and ecological corridors nurturing biodiversity and survival by, whenever necessary, a holistic, rights-based education and action to restore species habitats, empower local governance and embed justice into climate policy. (👿 Crisis: Existential threats to rivers and life on earth from harmful hydro projects, industrial exploitation, political neglect driven by business interests.)

🟥  Queer Ecologies & Exclusion 

“No Pride on a Dead Planet”⟷ “Queer Liberation = Climate Liberation”  

  • 🥰 Solution: Support human rights, indigenous-led campaigns to protect sacred rivers. Stress rights-based, holistic climate action as essential to restoring ecosystems, safeguarding culture and building inclusive, resilient societies (👿 Crisis: Excluding LGBTQI+ rights and perspectives; deepens their vulnerability and undermines collective resilience to harmful development.)

🟥 Q  Quisling Politics & Corruption  

  • 🥰 Solution: Strengthen good democratic legislation, implementation and prosecution with proportionate penalties to effectively combat rising living costs, eroded rights and accelerated climate collapse. (👿 Crisis: Political corruption, betrayal of voters trust, influencing operations undermining democracy and climate policies.)


🟥 R Resistance & Civil Disobedience, Water Scarcity & Privatisation  

“Water is Life, Not Profit” ⟷ “No Thirst for Corporate Greed  

  • 🥰 Solution: Take action in your own way (‘non-linearity’), support grassroots civil resistance and disobedience (NVDA) as a a moral and strategic necessity. Non-violent disobedience becomes the spark that challenges elite complacency, mobilises citizens and pushes governments to act on climate breakdown, systemic inequality and economic injustice (👿 Crisis: Privatisation and overuse are driving global water crises, turning a fundamental right into a commodity.)

🟥 S Stop Ecocide & Ecological Crimes  

  • 🥰 Solution: EU Forum Urges ICC to Criminalise Ecocide The COSAC Contribution, formally adopted on 10 June 2025 in Warsaw, notes (paragraph 20) that “the war in Ukraine has caused considerable cross-border environmental damage, which is a matter of great concern. COSAC calls for Russia’s actions to be examined in the context of ecocide and classified as an environmental crime under the Rome Statute.” 10 June 2025 (👿 Crisis: holding corporations and governments accountable for environmental destruction.)

🟥 T  Taming the Climate Crisis: Urgent Action Needed  

  • 🥰 Solution:  Rapid Corporation and government policy shifts and civil resistance to prevent catastrophic climate outcomes. Coordinated responses that combine science-based policy-making with citizen-led resistance (👿 Crisis: Technological and policy solutions alone are insufficient without public mobilisation to hold governments and corporations accountable for the cost of living climate emergency.)

🟥 U  “Urban Futures” 

Never For All! - Indigenous Rights, Land Back Justice  

  • 🥰 Solution: Driven by intelligent sustainability, sufficient for need not greed, climate justice and ecological restoration of climate-health (Emergency!) (👿 Crisis: Driven by stupid fossil fuelled wars, human rights/rights of Nature violations, greedy land sovereignty conflicts) 

🟥 V  Violations of Human Rights & Environmental Justice  

  • 🥰 Solution: Indigenous leadership’s successful negotiation of ‘Landback Climate Justice Pathways’ with colonial, settler-State Canadian government officials  toward restoration of stolen lands, truth and reconciliation climate solutions. (👿 Crisis: Human rights abuses linked to environmental degradation, resource extraction and climate injustice)

🟥 W  Wealth Inequality & Power Structures  

  • 🥰  Solution: Progressive permanent wealth taxes on the richest, closing tax loopholes and supporting Indigenous economic empowerment—combined with Indigenous-led resistance and systemic reform movements—can reduce inequality, protect lands and waters, amplify marginalized voices and strengthen democratic justice. by redistributing both wealth and political power, paving the way for greater justice, stronger communities, and true democratic participation. (👿 Crisis: Extreme wealth inequality in Canada and the USA entrenches corporate and political power, enabling extractive industries and state repression that fuel environmental destruction, deepen social divisions, deny basic needs, and erode democratic rights.)

Sources:

“Indigenous economic empowerment and systemic reform as pathways to reduce inequality and protect marginalized communities, synthesized from multiple studies including government and advocacy reports cited below”:

  1. https://www.wealthprofessional.ca/news/industry-news/canadas-gap-between-haves-and-have-nots-has-widened-in-2025/389734  Canada's widening wealth gap in 2025, with the top 20% holding 64.7% of wealth and the bottom 40% only 3.3%, fromStatistics Canada data and analysis by Wealth Professional:

  2. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/statistics-canada-income-gap-1.7586634  Report on record-high income inequality in Canada at the start of 2025, detailing income gaps, wage stagnation for lower-income groups, and investment gains for the wealthy from CBC News:

  3. https://bcpolicy.ca/2025/03/27/wealth-housing/  Analysis of income and wealth inequality, including housing-driven inequality and concentration of wealth among the richest 1% in Canada, by BC Policy Center:

  4. https://www.readthemaple.com/the-income-gap-in-canada-has-reached-a-record-high/  Coverage on Canada's record high income gap and the impact of tax policy on inequality, from The Maple:

  5. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2025/01/02/ten-facts-about-wealth-inequality-in-the-usa/  Coverage on Canada's record high income gap and the impact of tax policy on inequality, from The Maple:

  6. https://www.theprogress.com/national-news/statistics-canada-numbers-say-wealth-gap-getting-bigger-8213386  Discussion of income gap growth and investment income disparities contributing to inequality in Canada, from The Progress:

🟥 X  Xenophobia & Climate Misinformation, Xenophobia & Climate Migration  

  • 🥰 Solution: Addressing root causes through global climate action, fair asylum policies and dismantling xenophobic narratives can protect climate refugees, counter misinformation and advance justice-oriented responses. (👿 Crisis: Xenophobia and climate misinformation, fuelled by political manipulation and media disinformation, block climate justice by criminalising migrants and shifting blame away from fossil fuel corporations.)


Sources:

World Bank (2021) – Groundswell: Acting on Internal Climate Migration (projected over 200 million climate-displaced people by 2050).

Amnesty International (2025) – Devastating Impacts of Trump’s Migration and Asylum Policies (video, 31 March 2025).

General historical reference – Trump administration asylum restrictions (2017–2021), with later re-emergence in policy debates (well-documented in Amnesty and Human Rights Watch reports).


🟥 Y  Youth-Led Climate Movements & Intergenerational Justice 

“System Change, Not Climate Change” ⟷ “Our Future, Our Voice”  

  • 🥰 Solution: Youth-led movements, inspired by leaders like Greta Thunberg and bolstered by landmark legal victories such as the 2025 Just Stop Oil appeal, are driving transformative climate activism that demands systemic change, protects democratic rights, and fosters intergenerational justice through grassroots mobilization, legal recognition of protest rights, and inclusive policy advocacy. journals.plos+2 (👿 Crisis: Youth climate activists face increasing criminalization and repression worldwide, with governments and corporate interests employing anti-protest laws, policing, surveillance, and legal tactics to suppress peaceful climate protests, despite these activists exposing governance failures and advocating for urgent climate action .carnegieendowment+2 )

References

🟥 Z  Zero Waste & Circular Economy  

  • 🥰 Solution: The circular economy promotes sustainable consumption and production by designing systems for reuse, repair, recycling, and resource regeneration, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, conserving natural resources, and fostering environmental and economic resilience. Reconomy+2 (👿 Crisis: The traditional linear “take-make-dispose” economic model drives unsustainable resource extraction, pollution, and waste, leading to environmental degradation, resource depletion, and loss of community resilience globally. Ube+2 )

References


NOTE ‘It is crucial to exercise critical rationality and verify AI-generated reports because:

  1. AI can reproduce bias or errors from its training data or sources.

  2. Generated content may sound authoritative while being factually incorrect, misleading, or outdated.

  3. Nuance and context are often lost without human judgement.

  4. Verification ensures accountability, especially in political, legal, or scientific topics.

  5. Ethical responsibility demands users actively engage with sources to avoid spreading misinformation.Always cross-check claims with credible references and use AI as a tool, not an unquestioned authority.’ #ChatGPT Llewelyn Pritchard 13 June 2025


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