Tokenistic would be my way of describing it, sort of a mutual back-patting.

“There’s an onus on you as an individual to recycle, for example, as opposed to the big companies that actually cause the emissions. “I’m someone who’s very passionate about climate activism, but I’m quite cynical about whether this is actually going to achieve anything,” Mr Anderson said. While there was hope for the event to make significant impact, not all were sure it would. The roads were like rivers and, I thought, this is global warming that’s causing this.” “The rain come down, and I’ve never seen rain like it in my life. He recalled a recent day at work in Glasgow.

Mr Doonan said that while once he may have been sceptical about climate change, “I think we are now all accepting that the planet is heating up and we’re causing it.” When it came to the larger issue, there was little doubt that the climate crisis was human-caused and was impacting daily lives, including in Scotland.

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