I’ve been fortunate to meet John Cook to discuss this work in the past. The crackpot relative is a great framing device, and interesting that it’s so universal:
“Everyone has a variation of that cranky uncle,” Cook says. “But climate misinformation is a very western construct and now we are going into countries that are culturally quite different.
“But we’re finding that the cranky uncle is a universal human experience.”
![A photograph of a hand holding a phone. The screen displays a version of the Cranky Uncle game used in east Africa. Photograph: Nadir Kinani/The Guardian](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/663/2024/40824d9bd4.jpg)