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The climate movement's challenge isn't apathy – it's communication. That's the argument Sidhi Mittal makes after observing how Indian student protests transformed frustration into organised action. The piece suggests climate advocacy has become insular, speaking mainly to those already convinced. Student movements in India demonstrated something different: mobilisation rooted in lived experience, not abstract targets or policy jargon. Mittal's core claim deserves scrutiny. Climate organisations do talk past their intended audiences – relying on technical language, corporate framing, and insider networks that exclude the young people most affected by warming. But the diagnosis matters less than what follows: if climate work stopped preaching to the converted, what would change? Would funding dry up? Would campaigns become harder to measure? Would NGOs lose their comfortable position as experts? Those aren't rhetorical questions. Importing tactics from student movements – directness, local anchoring, peer-to-peer organising – demands structural shifts most established climate organisations resist. The piece doesn't resolve the tension between professionalised sustainability work and grassroots activism. It flags it. Whether that gap widens or narrows depends on whether organisations are willing to cede some control.