How individual actions add up to stop climate change

Sipho Kings

Sipho King's day job as a reporter for a major South African news outlet requires that he spends his days in communities that, often, have been destroyed by corporate greed and government indifference. By inference, if we expect solutions to the climate crisis to be determined exclusively by the same corporations and governments, then we have good reason to be pessimistic about the future. But, in his work, Sipho has seen first-hand how individual efforts can add up and multiply, to make the difference needed for humanity to steer clear of the ominous climate change doomsday scenario lurking in our collective future.

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Sipho Kings was born in Eswatini, grew up in a village in Botswana and went to school in a town in Limpopo. Now he lives in Johannesburg, where he moved to work at the Mail & Guardian, first as an intern, then as its environment reporter and now as its news editor. As an environment reporter, he focused on the struggle between humans and the environment to coexist. His sobering analysis of the world earned him the title of ‘doomsday reporter’ from his editor. It has also won him a dozen awards and seen him zip off for a year to do a journalism fellowship at Harvard University. As the M&G’s news editor, his focus now is on creating a space for journalists to do their best work.