Nudge and join forces with other people locally to engage in dialogue with your MP.
Once you've started a dialogue with your MP by writing to them, the next very easy but potentially very meaningful thing you can do is to
nudge other people you know to get into dialogue with their MP and if possible also join forces with others
particularly those you think unlikely to take much persuading - ie people you already know who are worried about climate change but dont know what to do about it, and you think would be interested in taking the same action you have.
Surveys show that the vast majority of people now believe that man-made global warming is real, are worried about climate change, but dont know what they can do about it as individuals.
By mentioning to family, friends and collegues that you've started a dialogue with your MP and asking them to join you is the best kind of nudge.
Forming a Whatsapp group, or something similar, to keep in touch, remind one another to write to their MP each month, share ideas and insights can then help maintain momentum and create a new network.
Benefits are likely to include:
More people who've never written to their
MP before feeling empowered to do so.
Greater likelihood of
momentum being sustained
in your dialogue with your MP and
reminder to send another letter.
Shared sense of purpose, feeling less alone
with worries about climate change
Exchange ideas, share research and
fact checking.
Proof reading, checking clarity of
communication, spelling and grammar.
Camaraderie, social interaction,
maybe meeting new like-minded
people locally.
If you join forces you can chose whether to write to your MP collectively or individually. If you choose to meet your MP in person, doing this in a small group is ideal as more weight is likely to be attached to a group than a single individual.
If over a few months, everyone already writing to their MP was able to nudge (say) 10 other people they know to start a dialogue with their MP, and those 10 were to nudge another 10 each, and so on, there would soon be an exponential increase in the number of dialogues going on with MPs about Climate Change.
An exponential increase in the number of people calling for greater action to cut greenhouse gas emissions within the next 10 years to their MP's has the potential to move the issue further into everyday politics, to become an election issue, and demand a much more urgent and meaningful response from government.