Eight years ago, I noticed that in addition to improvisation being useful in the climate challenge space, humour was required. When working with inherently scary climate predictions, we needed to add a lens of lightness and humour, so we could actually face what is here and then make beautiful choices.

The humour I was seeing in the climate space did not seem helpful:

• It made nature ‘the enemy’, exacerbating our disconnection with nature.
• It obscured our connection with creating the problem. Or
• It showed our connection with creating the problem but left us utterly hopeless and clueless about what to do next, creating an energetic THUD.

The sponsoring energy of the climate humour I was seeing was fear and anger. And the impact of that humour created more of the same, or worse - it created apathy. If we want to make beautiful choices with our present moment, we need humour with a different sponsoring energy. One of love.