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Repeatedly, our research at Climate Outreach has pointed to the importance of authenticity in campaign messaging: although climate change really does pose catastrophic risks, screaming about climate catastrophe is not necessarily a good strategy if the people on the receiving end don’t see the same risks. Although in many ways undeserved, there are also lots of negative stereotypes around ‘typical’ climate activists, and the ‘doom and gloom’ that characterised many early climate campaigns.

Prince Charles co-authors Ladybird climate change book - BBC

Why, I ask, should we read a book about evolution? ‘The most important thing is that it’s simple. And the second most important thing is that it’s fun,’ Jones replies. His book is a pared-down version of Darwin’s The Origin of Species. It begins with the revelation that whales are what became of hippo-like creatures that lived in the Himalayas 55 million years ago. Ladybird books on ‘logic’, ‘honesty’ and ‘how to answer a question’ should be compulsory reading for MPs.”What is climate change? How does it work? Learn from the experts in the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES Filbert Cobb seems hard and cynical, not without justification, so so be it, but if Prince Charles would make a clear statement on the whole hunting issue and in support of radical reform, followed up by management practice on the Royal estates, it may be a mega U turn or it may be him “coming out” with what he really thinks, but it would certainly get some attention on the issue. He can be radical and revolutionary…so now would be good, far better than the blind and arrogant stubbornness of many in the shooting world. Probably better in the shooting and National press than a Ladybird book, but I may be wrong there! Nice little book with a big reach. We have a US president who has said that ‘nobody really knows’ if climate change is real. ‘One would hope that a copy [of Climate Change] will find its way into the Oval Office and that President Trump might be able to review his views,’ says Juniper.

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The Ladybird book has a sense of urgency, but in no way does it feel overcooked (as some environmentalist writing can). It is written in a direct, functional – perhaps even unadventurous – style. But the absence of polemicism and grandstanding is likely to have been a good thing for the audience the book was aimed at.Charles penned a personal afterword for the publication, A Ladybird Book: Climate Change, written last summer when he was still the Prince of Wales. It an excellent idea. Then and only then can we send it to politicians and and expect them to read it and understand something.

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She said: “The book of the wedding of Charles and Diana was a triumph of planning and organisation and something completely new for Ladybird. Focusing on tangible consequences of climate impacts (such as health risks from extreme weather), or concrete benefits of climate policies (health gains from preventative measures to keep climate risks at bay) is likely to generate more engagement from people who don’t live and breathe climate change in the way that scientists or campaigners do.

It’s a while since I bought a Ladybird book – but I still have a lot of the original series dotted around the house. It is questionable whether illustrations are better than real photographs for conveying that authentic sense that ‘this is happening’. But the front cover depicted a scene that is recognisable to anyone who has lived in or passed through a British market-town. Images of climate change ‘happening’ to recognisable people and places is worth a hundred graphs or gifs. Learn about one of the most important issues facing our world today in this clear, simple and enlightening introduction. The constitutional monarch, who must remain politically neutral, wrote of how he admired children across the world for “raising the alarm and calling for big changed to happen.”