messaging
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Stop scaring people about climate change. It doesn’t work.
If you’re trying to motivate people, scaring the shit out of them is a bad way to go.
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Attention climate wonks: you can't take the politics out of politics
Princeton's Robert Socolow is the latest climate wonk to wistfully hope that we can tackle climate change through reasoned persuasion. That's unlikely.
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Fishing for change
Recycled Fish turns anglers into conservation stewards, in the hopes that future generations will be able to fish in healthy waters.
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Balancing climate pragmatism with moral clarity
The Breakthrough Institute crew has a new report called "Climate Pragmatism." It's got a few reasonable ideas and some not-so-reasonable ones.
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Talking about the weather, post chitchat
The weather isn't a boring topic of conversation, and talking about the link between extreme weather and climate change takes on new significance.
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Gore launches new Climate Reality Project, tells Grist all about it
Al Gore is launching a new campaign: the Climate Reality Project. It will kick off on Sept. 14 with a global, live-streamed "24 Hours of Reality" event.
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Bachmann: Energy is 'the most easy problem for America to solve'
During a campaign event this past weekend, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offered up her solution to the energy crisis.
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Awesome video shows us what the messaging on climate and clean energy must become
Holy hickory-smoked pole beans, did you just see that? That's what happens when the messaging on climate shifts from scare tactics — which studies show only work on about 10 percent of the population — to a totally honest, positive but not Pollyanna-ish attempt to get people excited about real change. Carbon Nation is the […]
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Downplaying or remaining silent about climate change was and is a blunder for progressives
Progressives shouldn’t keep quiet.Photo: Jennifer MooSome of the best pollsters have known for years that progressives can and should talk about climate change. Mark Mellman calls the polling that suggests one shouldn’t talk about global warming, a “politically naïve, methodologically flawed, and factually inaccurate.” Sure, if you talk about any subject in a clumsy fashion […]