Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves

Climate One

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

4.7 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cover the hopes, fears, and middle-of-the-night concerns affecting the people living closest to climate change. In Georgia, farmers were convinced that climate is a political issue — until too-warm winters began upending the Peach State’s prized crop. In a wealthy Los Angeles suburb, an invisible methane gas leak caused outrage and hysteria for local residents concerned about personal health and property values — but not the climate. “I think we've all gotten really used to telling our stories, putting them out there in the world, and it sometimes feels like maybe not so many people are actually listening to them,” Subramanian says. “And so I think sometimes showing up as a journalist and just being all ears can feel kind of profound.” Guests: Nathaniel Rich, Author, Losing Earth; Second Nature Meera Subramanian, Environmental Journalist Have you ever had a difficult conversation about climate? A disagreement, perhaps, or coming to terms with a new reality? We’d like to hear your stories. Please call (650) 382-3869 and leave us a voicemail about your toughest climate conversation. Or drop us a line at climateone@gmail.com. We may use your story in an upcoming episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.6	This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. Talking about climate sometimes feels difficult, even as more people are directly feeling the impacts.
0:38.0	We're not listening to each other at all, and we're not listening to each other,
0:41.2	what each other is listening to either with the medialization that's happened.
0:45.6	Journalist Mira Subraman has spent years talking with some of the people living closest to climate change
0:50.6	and parts of the country where climate science isn't always trusted.
0:54.8	Part of the problem, she says, is the lack of conversation among people who don't agree.
0:59.5	Both sides are not listening to each other.
1:01.1	I think it's really easy for people on the climate activist side to completely and utterly dismiss
1:07.8	the people who are skeptical and vice versa. And so I think going in and
1:13.3	trying to understand what is driving somebody? What are they thinking about in the middle of the
1:19.9	night? Climate One's empowering conversations explore all aspects of the climate emergency. On today's
1:25.6	show, we'll talk with Subramanian about the importance of listening
1:29.3	and how our identities and value shape the way we understand others' climate experience.
1:34.3	And we'll explore the stories we tell ourselves to cope with climate disruption and other human impacts on the environment.
1:41.3	How do we understand a natural disaster if it's not, you know, a fire at our door,
1:46.0	or if it's not water rising in our driveway?
1:50.0	What's the psychological ramifications of this?
1:54.0	Nathaniel Rich is author of the new book, Second Nature, Scenes from a World Remade.
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