Anand Giridharadas: Persuaders in a Hot and Polarized World
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:30.9 | This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. Many political conversations center on convincing someone of your positions to get them onto your side. |
| 0:40.5 | But some political movements focus more on the purity of their positions rather than trying to get more people to embrace them. |
| 0:48.2 | In climate in particular, I think there's been this problem of movements that are better at being right than they are at being sticky. |
| 0:56.7 | In his new book, The Persuaders, Anandir Dharadas says he's focused on the possibility of doing |
| 1:02.6 | two things at once. |
| 1:04.6 | Standing firmly and bravely in our convictions about what is right, with outreach, with giving people a chance, with making |
| 1:16.5 | an effort to build a bigger we around our ideas. |
| 1:24.6 | And in democracy, meaningful change often requires adapting views and building coalitions. |
| 1:31.1 | Some believe finding common ground and building rapport is the best way to achieve that. |
| 1:36.0 | Others believe activism and protests are key to raising awareness and driving change. |
| 1:41.2 | But increasingly, the acts of listening and persuading are omitted, as each side is convinced |
| 1:47.0 | that the other is unreasonable and unmovable. Anandir Dardardis is a journalist, political analyst, |
| 1:53.6 | and author. His latest book, The Persuaders, At the Frontlines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy |
| 2:00.2 | explores how the tactics |
| 2:02.1 | of persuasion can help strengthen democracy and foster positive societal change. |
| 2:08.2 | One story from his book details an event early in the Trump presidency. |
| 2:12.8 | Muslim American activist Linda Sarsur is giving a talk at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, |
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