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Climate One

Bridging The Great American Divide

Climate One

Climate One

News Commentary, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, News

4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Most Americans support climate action, but you wouldn’t know it from Congress or the courts – or from most of the media. People on both the left and the right experience the same devastating floods, the same life-threatening heatwaves and the same catastrophic wildfires. Yet individuals tend to socialize within insulated political tribes, operate in completely different information bubbles and see the problems and solutions through different lenses. How can we learn to bridge ideological divides, develop trust, and find the common ground needed to rebuild respectful civil discourse? Guests: Chloe Maxmin, Maine State Senator Joan Blades, Co-founder, LivingRoomConversations.org John Gable, Co-founder, AllSides.com For show notes and related links, visit ClimateOne.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.6

This is Climate 1. I'm Ariana Brocious in for Greg Dalton. There's more consensus around the need to address climate disruption than many of us may think.

0:41.0

But in our increasingly online and partisan world, we've siloed ourselves from viewpoints different from our own.

0:47.7

We all are biased. We all live in bubbles.

0:52.1

We cannot rely just on ourselves to be fair or balanced or see the world evenly.

0:58.9

People keep on thinking we're rational beings.

1:01.6

But if you look at the science, over 90% of the time, we're doing it by gut.

1:06.4

And then our reason follows.

1:08.6

But if we can engage with one another as humans

1:11.6

and allow ourselves to take in different perspectives,

1:14.6

we can make more progress together.

1:16.6

We have to decide what's more important to us,

1:19.6

being right about that issue,

1:22.6

or actually solving the problem.

1:25.6

Most Americans support climate action,

1:28.3

but you wouldn't know it from Congress or the courts

1:31.3

or from most of the media.

1:33.3

A recent study found that a majority of people

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