The current era of fear and inaction serves no one-especially not the young people who stand to witness the worst of the latter stages of climate change. You’re afraid to say, ‘Well, I did this’ because people will go, ‘But you didn't do this.’” Crucially, Baird believes that, to survive, we all must harness optimism. “The constant barraging people with guilt and that they’re not doing enough-that’s detrimental because that discourages people from doing anything.
“It’s the consciousness that will make a difference rather than the perfection,” Baird says. For example, if you need to fly somewhere, you might make the choice to mostly stay home and walk to local friends and shops for the following week or two. Through Overheated, Baird is keen to dispel the idea of the “perfect activist.” Instead, she wants to share with attendees that activism is both about making consistent behavioral changes that become second nature-perhaps around diet or specific purchasing habits-and assessing day-to-day decisions as they arise. To combat this, Baird says, Billie’s team have sought out solutions to make her tour not only carbon neutral, but carbon positive. Up to 42 percent of the carbon footprint of a tour traces back to band and audience travel alone and the power needed put on each show and the single-use plastic used at each venue only makes things worse. Since then, Baird says Billie has been engaging with the subject of climate change much more frequently, with the two of them becoming increasingly concerned about the environmental impact of touring.
It was this moment that encouraged Billie to see the world in a way she hadn’t seen before, spurring her imagination to contemplate a bigger picture, far beyond her home in LA. Maggie observed Billie talking about climate change with more frequency and then, after watching a David Attenborough documentary, her daughter became fully engaged with the topic. “It’s the unpredictability… how are we going to cope? Is it going to affect me personally? Is it going to affect how I live my life out in the world? Is my house going to be blown away? You see things on the news-how can you not worry that they’re going to happen to you?” And then you realize, ‘Well, what is the world they're living in?’” she says.
“I noticed a general anxiety in young people.
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