These are the messages of Climate Hope we have collected so far from the people of Scotland. We have kept original text and spellings.
- Greenspace for Wildlife
- No new oil
- A Loud Revolution
- Green energy is so sexy
- Do Better
- Stop Funding Roads – put our resources into future generations
- More efficient services from councils
- Sort our sewage
- Stop climate waste
- I want you to protect nature as much as you can
- Actually start implementing the promises
- Float my boat with commitment to meaningful change, not business as usual
- Protect nature
- Stop throwing things in the sea
- Tax the rich
- Fewer cars not newer cars
- Defund projects that damage our future
- Less plastic on fruit and veg
- Stop using fossil fuels, we only have one planet
- Don’t use fossil fuels
- Leave it in the ground
- Rewild the planet
- Atmoshpere matters
- Just Stop Oil
- Make room for nature
- Introduce the Future Generations Test for all policies in Scotland
- Support the Outright Campaign – (Campaign on Children’s Rights in a Changing Climate)
- Don’t you care about your grandchildren’s future?
- Local Produce
- Change Our Food Systems
- Food Air Miles
- Nourish Scotland
- Regenerative Farming
- Celebrate Organic
- Teach Nutrition at School
- Food for All
- Food systems need to change
- Grow your own
- Climate Resiliant Crops
- Please stop climate change
- Please protect the Tiger Species because they are endangered
- Please don’t let Pandas get Extinct
- Protect Red Squirrels
- Save the Green Belt
- Please make less pollution
- Please protect red squirrels in danger of extinction
- Please make sure trees do not be cut
- Please make sure that the squirrels and birds do not get killed by cars
- Can you please tell people not to kill animals for fun
- Stop Plastic Pollution
- Stop overuse of water
- Please stop pollution
- Don’t ruin nature
- Save the Earth
- There’s no planet B
- Have hope, take action
- Keep our seas clean
- Wave energy – let Scotland lead the world in this
- Electrify our railways
- Plant native trees
- Clean the rivers
- Support Green Jobs
- No more mining for oil
- Reuse/recycle
- Stop private air travel
- Protect our future
- World peace
- Wind, wave and solar
- Improving housing stock insulation
- One third of land for nature
- Move effective public transport
- Biodiversity and nature conservation
- Big discounts on e-bikes and e-cars for all
- Love our earth
- Everyone has a part to play
- Stop Industry Farming
- Be kind to the world and yourself
- Big discounts of e-bikes and e-cars for all
- Love one planet
- Our parents will die of old age, our children will die of climate change #MoreWindPower #DoMore
- don’t pollute
- Don’t drop litter
- It’s worth the money
- Lots more flowers, trees, plants, bees, birds, insects – space and places for them to live
- You are never wrong to do the right thing
- Be kind. It’s not hard 🙂
- Together we can do it
- Save Our Planet! There is no Planet B
- Biodiversity, Nature, Conservation
- Our Oceans are in Danger to Where Pollution is no Stranger
- You don’t have to be perfect to be complete. Just like this boat.
- Love Earth
- Please come up with a plan to increase the recycling rate
- Save the Earth Today, To Survive Tomorrow!!
- This boat has been damaged due to excessive weather from climate change
- This paper came from a tree so don’t waste it.
- Save the World. One World, One Boat
- We can still reverse and repair the damage done to our only planet! ACT NOW
- No dredging our seas
- I want clean oceans. <3 Life
- Save the Earth
- Protect our future
- Keep our beautiful planet clean for us, for the future, for the wildlife and plants. Plant native trees.
- The climate crisis is killing us. We need to do something. It’s easy to assume that we can outlive the crisis – what is the point of that? Start by fixing the current structure of our industries and economies to stop using so much fossil fuel.
- Follow your gut.
- More Green Jobs
- Save the forests!
- Recycle
- Planes X, Trains √
- Vehicles running on plants and crops
- Save the duckbilled platypus
- Please stop taking new oil from north sea bed
- Stop dredging
- More green transport and more green jobs
- Re-wilding projects planting new native trees
- Take care of Earth
- Save our planet for the children
- I hope people can use cars less
- Stop wasting resources
- Use more renewables
- Change Now!
- Together we can save our planet and our future
- Peace
- Think before you act
- Put your rubbish in the bin
- World peace
- Tax the rich
- Keep the carbon in the ground (SS The Common Good. Blessings on all who sail in her)
- Think for everyone in the future
- Paperboats don’t float well if we have to use it once all the ice melts! (RMS Don’t Sink)
- Improve Housing Stock’s Insulation.
- The courage to stand up for what you believe in and the faith also.
- Green jobs please!
- Peace boat
- Do Better for our Future! Be Braver!
- Prepare for Climate Change
- Rewild our country
- Make all packaging organic
- Leave our oil and gas in the ground
- Don’t harm the Earth
- There is No Planet B
- There is no Planet B. Climate Change is Real.
- I want to change future. Give me a chance!
- Reuse / Upcycle / Recycle
- Keep this beautful city clean and throw your rubbish in the bin
- Support green jobs. No more oil mines.
- Stop over fishing
- Keep our oceans clean
- Just transition for oil workers. Invest in wave energy now.
- Wave energy – Let Scotland be World leaders and saviours
- Love our Earth
- Only one planet. Please work together.
- Keep your promises.
- Plant native Trees. Together we can save our beautiful planet.
- Everyone has a part ot play.
- Save our Planet. Help Mother Earth.
- Save Planet
- Help Planet Earth. Don’t waste paper!
- Like wee folded paperboats… Como Barquitos de Papel…
- It’s getting too hot!
- We will tell our children about the polar bears, about the penguins. We will reminisce a world of balance, of steady rain, of safe fires, of ice. We will appologise for the coal, fires, floods, drought, gas, pain that was inflicted. We will apologise for the death of our world.
- The Blue Whale
- SS World Peace. Come Sail Away with Me.
- Keep our seas clean
- More green spaces
- Performance, less profit to shareholders
- More effective public transport
- More allotments and school gardens
- Better sewerage disposal – including higher penalties levied on top management.
- More personal responsibility of decision makers.
- “What if the future is soft and revolution is so kind that there is no end to us in sight?” – Quote from a poem by Ayisha Siddiqa
- Stop private air travel
- Have hope. Take Action.
- Electrify railways.
- Live Simply
- Stop relying on new oil
- Please: No More North Sea Oil
- Please Take Action!
- Stop abusive fishing – save our seas & maritime diversity.
- Save the Earth
- Clean the rivers
- Wind, Wave and Solar Please. No More Oil for Power
- Think before you Act
- Clean our rivers
- I’m worried about our wildlife
- Stop Plastic Pollution or The World Will Fight Back
- Stop Littering
- Stop cuting trees – they are oxygen
- Clean Air
- Stop Cutting Trees
- Protect Nature
- Recycle more
- It’s time to give up our nuclear weapons. Lead by example.
- Make no cars
- Clean water for everyone
- Stop littering and save the bees!
- Use more bikes
- Save nature
- Save our trees
- Use more solar panels
- Save the bees!
- Do not litter
- Stop drilling for oil.
- Clean Air
- Better Public Transport!
- Save the Wolves
- Stop chasing the $£€ money – act collectively, swiftly, decisively
- Free public transport please
- Fewer cars
- Let nature live
- Take action swiftly, decisively and with the courage of your conscience
- Better public transport
- Keep the ocean plastic free
- Green jobs
- Support re-wilding
- Stop fossil Fuels
- Stop Rosebank
- We are nature
- Clean air
- Stop the exploitation of nature
- Protect nature
- Be the change
- Less meat
- Save water
- No more cuts to public transport
- We can lead the change
- Green jobs
- We are but one species
- Lead the change
- Better public transport for Stirling and Hillfoots
- Better public transport. No cuts.
- Keep the forests green and the oceans blue
- Regulate so the polluter pays
- Regulate indistrial waste levels
- Fund green transport
- Be brave in following through policy to funded action
- We need better public transport that is connected
- Fund re-wilding projects
- Stop single use plastics
- Ban private jets
- Make change
- Fund environmental charities
- Protect our water
- Support a fair and just transition
- Be better
- Listen!
- Do Something
- Dear Scottish Government. Do everything you can to protect species and bring more biodiversity in Scotland. From Ellie.
- Encourage reuse as standard
- Know Better, Do Better
- Better Public Transport
- Help people financially to change heating systems for homes away from fossil fuels
- Support public transport
- Fight for greener jobs in wellbeing economy
- Polluters need to pay to clean up their mess
- Reduce water waste
- Change must be equitable
- Ban single use plastics
- Focus on the actions of big companies and institutions, not the individual
- Change must be led from the front
- Reuse as standard
- No single-use plastics
- Support reuse organisations to reduce waste
- Make a decision and make it count
- Understand cultural significance and asset of Scotland’s environment
- If you don’t know, learn
- Regulate so that polluter pays
- Green spaces
- A Priority Not A ‘Goal’
- Just Do Better
- Our planet needs us to make better choices
- Our children desrve better
- Fair Transition
- Affordable public transport
- We know better. We can do better.
- Stop buying oil stock. Invest in better alternatives.
- Build a circular economy
- Reduce eco-anxiety by showing action. Look after your constituents.
- Our children deserve our best efforts
- Improve recycling levels
- Value Scotland’s Environmental Assets by protecting them.
- Listen to the experts, not the politics
- Plan for tomorrow and the next decades now and DO something!
- Don’t hestiate and don’t delay. Be the 1st brick in the wall.
- Ban cars
- Protect established forests and plant new forests
- Protect peat bogs
- Make more cycle routes seperate from roads – helps people feel safer when cycling.
- Convenience and comfort should not dictate our future
- Green jobs
- No new oil
- Fight for greener jobs
- Reuse as standard
- Climate action over politics
- A priority not an aim
- Be the change, don’t wait for it
- We alone are responsible for the damage, we alone are responsible for fixing it.
- We know better so we can do better
- Lead the way
- Change is necessary, not a ‘goal’
- Reduse water waste
- Support circular economies
- Improve recycling levels
- Make better choices
- More funding to community groups trying to make a difference to the planet
- Better waste regulation
- A necessity, not an ‘aim’
- Regulate so the polluter pays
- Change now!
- Ban private jets
- There is no plan B
- Listen to the experts, not the politics
- Act now, no time to waste
- More opportunities to borrow items and get items repaired
- Care for your community – not just the humans but also the built and natural environment
- Everybody has a part to play but not everybody has a platform
- A plea that we remember we are only one of many species
- Fund research and action to improve environment
- Green jobs
- Listen!
- Climate action over politics
- Regulate waste production by big companies
- Support those trying to create change
- If you don’t know how to fix it, listen to those that do!
- No plan B
- Try and help children with disadvantaged backgrounds
- Recycling non-optional
- Pave the way
- No single-use plastics
- Now not later
- Save our children’s future
- Look after our planet and environment. Dear Scottish Government, please help our planet. Make electric cars affordable. Make more solar panels. More people should be vegetarian or vegan. Don’t let people use or waste as much water.
- Support change in the water industry to clean up national asset.
- Education is key
- Tackling climate change has to be a priority
- Regulate industry
- It’s not someone else’s responsibility, it’s yours.
- Don’t wait – Act Now!
- Reduce air miles
- Now not later
- Don’t wait ‘til it’s too late!
- We are just one species
- Be the change you want to see in the world
- Help us
- Ban cars
- Reduce water waste
- Fund climate groups. Help people find the answers to the problems you helped cause.
- Green spaces saved
- Now not later
- A healthy planet my children can thrive in
- Suport environmental charities
- The future over convenience
- Convenience is no excuse
- Support a fair and just transition
- We need climate hope. This crisis isn’t a joke. Have politicians done anything? Nope. Lack of action – People Revoke! HMS Save the Planet
- Nobody wins unless everybody wins
- No more oil
- Reduce Air Travel
- Public transport must be affordable
- The future deserves better
- Reduse waste
- Stop mining
- Be the change
- Leave Carbon in the Ground
- Better Public Transport
- Wake Up!
- Change is necessary and urgent. Not a ‘goal’.
- No more cuts to public transport
- Change must be lead from the front
- Stop sewage in rivers
- Clean the Oceans
- No more pheasants
- All MPs should be no-take zones
- Coastal erosion and flooding are only going to get worse. Act!
- Protect our future
- Keep it in the ground
- Elephants are a vanishing act
- No World 2
- Invest in our railways. Stop Flying. Rewild.
- 15 minute neighbourhoods
- Keep 1.5 Alive
- No one can say we weren’t warned
- Limit air miles
- Stop sand-eel fisheries. Save our seabirds.
- To ensure children in poverty get help with continuing education
- No new oil
- Our children deserve our best efforts
- ‘Incite this meeting to riot’ – Emmeline Pankhurst
- Just transition
- Green spaces must be protected
- Support public transport
- Green spaces must be protected at all costs
- Bring an end to burning heather
- Nurture Planetary Health
- Stop moving the goalposts
- What if we get it right?
- Do something now!
- Divest from fossil fuels
- Support circular economies
- Stop Rosebank
- Support reuse organisations to reduce waste
- Take it seriously – be bold.
- Stop cutting down trees, they are our breath
- Keep climate hope afloat
- MSPs – please listen to the people! We want action on climate
- Divest from fossil fuels
- Recyclable or biodegradeable packaging
- How can you ask us to use public transport if we don’t have any to use? Save the X10! Stirling to Balfron
- Keep our X10 bus! Support green transport
- Make new houses ecofriendly
- Protect our wildlife
- More renewable energy
- Take the climate emergency seriously
- Make it easy for for us to be plastic free
- Recycle all plastic
- Look after wildlife
- Protect our seas
- Plant more trees
- Better public transport
- More initiatives to stop littering
- Make Scotland greener
- Make hedgehog highways
- Stop fossil fuels
- Look after wildlife
- Fair transition
- Stop using fossil fuels
- Be honest about 1.5 degrees
- Keep oil and gas in the ground
- Bank Green
- Stop Rosebank
- Stop Rosebank
- Protect wildlife
- Stop overfishing
- Stop giving out licenses for oil
- Stop financing fossil fuels
- Stop Rosebank
- Think about our future
- Reduce fossil fuel use
- Stop financing fossil fuels
- Move to green energy
- Don’t buy foreign oil
- Help Pollinators
- Preserve local wildlife areas
- Tree planting in towns
- More Green Spaces
- More trains and busses
- No Mow May
- Plant more trees
- Reduce, reuse, recycle
- Stop building on green belt
- Better public transport
- Stop oil
- More rewilding
- Plant more wildflowers in public areas
- Promote plant based diet
- Less Fast Fashion
- More recycling
- Better public transport
- No more oil
- No fossil Fuels
- Please don’t make the planet fend for itself. Uphold your promises for a carbon free country by 2050 or earlier. The planet is dying, time is a luxury. From an anxious student.
- Let’s realise that we have to make changes now and not later to protect the planet and everyone who lives on it.
- Please use your power to create heart-led change. I am faced with a deteriorating world. No new oil! Social and economic justice as climate changes.
- It is my hope that politicians are held to account and made to prioritse human life over profit from oil and gas. Poeple in the global south are already facing climate catastrophe and shouldering a burden they are not responsible for. It is shameful that our politicians are brokering contracts for gas and oil exploration. They are willfully complicit in ethnic cleansing for the sake of lining their own pockets.
- Take care of this boat while we’ve got her, cause pretty soon, it’ll all be water.
- Better public transport
- 15 min neighbourhoods
- Support rewilding
- A fair transition
- Protect nature
- Clean air
- More cycle routes
- Stop fossil fuels
- Climate justice for all
- Please top using cars
- Protect nature, recycle more, less electricity
- Stop throwing plastic in the sea because it is killing sea life
- Rules for big companies to help reduce emissions
- If you cut a tree, plant 100 more.
- When a plant is planted more wildlife is spread
- Give things you don’t need to charity
- Help homeless and hunger
- No bullying
- Please build more shelters and give dogs and animals better care. Thank you.
- Can you plant more trees and flowers
- Less cars. More trees, More plants. More greens.
- More nature. Recycle.
- Plant more forests! Please
- Please keep pets and animals safe. Keep plants safe and look after our planet.
- Stop chopping down animals habitat
- Less plastic containers
- Make the world a clean place and stop littering
- I want people to be nicer and smarter
- Use more green electricity and burn less coal. Use more natural resources like more dirt and stone that hasn’t been mined.
- Pick up more litter
- Ban plastic bags in the whole world
- Plant more trees and flowers
- Bees for honey
- Plant more trees
- Plant more trees and fruits, flowers, vegetables and grow more greenery grass.
- Have a life with plants
- Plant trees. Make the world clean. Do not throw trash.
- Save our planet by walking and cycling more
- Kill one, plant two
- Stop using plastic and wasting food
- Stop using phones
- If you cut a tree, plant more
- Plant more trees and flowers and help injured animals
- One tree cut down, five trees planted.
- Less rubbish in the ocean
- Keep animals safe. Keep plants safe and look after plants.
- When a tree is cut down, more wildlife is gone.
- Recycle plastic waste.
- Give animals food and water
- Save tree from being cut down and stop hunters hunting innocent animals.
- Hi Government. Pick up litter because it’s everywhere.
- Just do it! Clean air
- Clean air
- Better transport. Less waste. More recycling.
- Green jobs
- Clean air
- Protect nature
- Message of climate hope from Arran.
- Sun rise not sea rise
- Please can the emissions that are set to help the climate change problem be both effective and realisitic. We (human kind) are the ones causing the problem and we are effected by the damage but not nearly so much as the environment with animals and nature.
- Stop selling plastic bottles
- Don’t make young people pay for your mistakes
- [Drawing of a person on fire.]
- Ban single-use plastics now!
- More recycling bins please
- Stop using fossil fuels
- Freeze the water not the plastic in the rivers
- Stop Fossil Fuels
- Plant more trees
- Protect Nature #Hope
- Green energy is the future
- Stop wasting paper. Recycle more.
- Cleaner energy
- Electric cars by 2030
- Less pollution #Hope
- Ban the sale of carrier bags
- More water fountains in schools and towns
- Stop chucking stuff in the sea
- Make green power accessible
- Plant more trees! Save the bees!
- Ban carrier bags
- Fair transition
- Protect nature
- Green jobs
- Support Rewilding
- Better public transport
- Less waste, better recycling services
- Stop fossil fuels
- Climate change bad 🙁
- Let the Earth breathe
- Taxes to support a fair transition
- Warm homes for everyone
- Support green jobs
- Protect nature
- Less planes, more birds
- Less cars, more bikes
- Better sustainable transport
- Take care of our Earth
- Make peace with the Earth
- Support the green transition
- Let the Earth breathe
- No new North Sea Oil
- Rewilding is the way
- Go lightly on our Earth
- Wind power
- Public transport
- Less waste
- Clean air
- Green jobs
- Let it be a white Christmas – Stop fossil fuels
- Protect nature
- Clean air
- Green jobs
- Don’t float away on the hot air of power and hunt for a golden pot at the end of the rainbow. Navigate based on the myriad of natural connections, put down your anchor in a gentle way and leave only light footprints.
- Stop Gloable Warming
- Don’t waste food
- Don’t wasted paper you don’t wasted world 1
- We need Win Win Solutions
- Peace begins deep in each heart and then radiates out in to the community
- Our boats are buoyant with Hope and Resilience
- Let the seas be filled to the brim with fish
- This boat is an Ark – its intention to save lives
- We can sail around the World but we still don’t know how to be in it
- Do not sail away from what doesn’t look easy
- Oil is Foul
- Oil Sickens everything
- Wind Power. Wave Power.
- No New Peterhead Gas Plant
- Fossil fuels will worsen climate breakdown and keep home energy bills chained to volatile global gas prices.