These fresh insights can help us speak more convincingly about the climate — even to conservatives.

These three resources can greatly increase our effectiveness when talking about the climate — including how to reach conservatives:

 

 

We can move conservatives to support the climate if we use the right kinds of wording and messaging:

We can move conservatives to support the climate if we use the right kinds of wording and messaging.  Banging away on the facts won’t change the minds of people who refuse to support smart climate actions.  For the climate – just as for other issues – we need to “frame” the issue and use the kinds of wording and messaging that will help different kinds of people start to move in our direction.  See this smart article:

Hope for bipartisanship: A new study shows that microtargeting conservatives is the most  effective way to reach them on climate change. Donald Trump turned “climate change” into a partisan word — but if we learn to speak a common language on the climate crisis, we can still grow our movement and find the long-elusive bipartisanship that will help win this battle.

 

 

Republicans care more about the climate if you speak their language:

This article is consistent with what I am saying about “framing” an issue in workshop #6 (Sunday-Monday June 20-21).  The article also says this research is most relevant for people who are somewhat in the middle of the spectrum, rather than hard-core climate deniers.  See the article at the link below the article’s headline:  Republicans care more about the climate if you speak their language

https://grist.org/politics/study-republicans-climatchange-minds/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily

 

 

Fresh insights into how to talk about the science of climate crisis:

Presumably, this article’s insights might pertain also to how we talk about other scientific crises (Coronavirus, nuclear weapons, etc.):

https://grist.org/article/the-conventional-wisdom-on-how-to-talk-about-climate-change-its-wrong/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org