Collective Action
Many hands, one mission: Combating climate change together
Collective action is how we get to scale and amplify climate action.
Collective action also helps to increase a sense of efficacy among those who engage, accelerating action.
Examples of collective action include a neighborhood, student body, or professional organization working together as a group to take action on climate.
Individual action helps propel collective action.
Results from a 2019 AP-NORC poll showed that those who felt their own actions had an effect on climate change had a 40% greater response toward government, businesses, and other groups playing a role than those that felt their actions didn’t matter.
Social change can take place with as few as 3.5% of the public engaging in peaceful protest actions.
What You Can Do Now
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Join Citizen's Climate Lobby (CCL)
Citizen's Climate Lobby is an effective nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to advancing legislation at the national and state levels that addresses the climate crisis. It is a registered 501 c (4) organization. The larger an organization is, the more likely they are to have influence with Congress. If a few thousand of the over 200,000 behavior analysts joined CCL, it could help the organization pass pro-climate legislation. Citizen’s Climate Education (CCE) is the nonprofit 501 c(3) educational partner to CCL. CCE empowers people from diverse backgrounds to educate key stakeholders, policymakers, and the general public about effective solutions to climate change.
The behavior change expertise of behavior analysts could be helpful to the organization; and conversely, the activism skills of CCL members might be helpful to behavior analysts with practice-related goals.
