Go to a climate party — change your lifestyle – Sweden.se

It’s a Saturday afternoon in the Stockholm suburbs and Eva Brandtell has invited six friends over to her place for a party. In the last year, Eva has become increasingly aware of the threat to the environment, having seen the climate change debate hitting the headlines in newspapers and on TV.

Eager to find out more, she’s throwing a climate party, with coffee, cake and a portion of planet saving on the side. Tomas Walch — IT consultant, campaigner and brains behind the idea — introduces himself: “Hi, my name is Tomas,” he says. “I’m a fossil fuel addict.”
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Yet, parts of the scientific community have a different opinion on the matter. According to Lars Franzén, professor in physical geography at the University of Gothenburg, the media is doing society a disservice.

“The media are simply adding to the hysteria, blaming everything on climate change,” he says. “And here in Sweden, people have a conscience about environmental problems and feel the need to act.”

Franzén believes the hype is part of a misleading, global political agenda and lack of energy is the burning issue. “Fossil fuels as an energy resource are not endless,” Franzén says. “Politicians need us to stop consuming them, and the trigger they are using is climate change.”

However controversial an issue, climate change continues to be widely debated, reported on and acted upon in Sweden. Climate change has even become the reason for a rather unconventional celebration, the climate party.