Joyce Fegan: How to overcome climate fatalism? Do an Obama on it

It's difficult to change minds with words like 'disaster', 'crisis', and 'radical', but appealing to common values like making the world a better place for our children are what bring the story home.

Composer and violinist Viktor Seifert, 14, from Edinburgh, plays the Driftwood Violin in front of the Climate Fringe mural at St John's Church in the West End, ahead of Cop26 in Glasgow. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

"If things continue as they are, in 50 years' time my baby granddaughter will have to live in an unlivable world."

I heard these words as I watched my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter walk slowly and intentionally across the road, hand-in-hand, with her childminder — innocent to the world's woes and to the petty minds and conflicts that stop the adults from addressing them.