Finding the Heart to Talk About Climate

Climate One

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

4.7 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ever have a difficult conversation about climate? Pretty much everyone has. Knowing all the facts and figures only goes so far when talking to someone who just doesn’t agree. So how do we break through the barriers? Scientists trained to present information in a one-way lecture format face a particular challenge: they first need to unlearn old habits. “Everybody's trying to figure out ‘how do we move past this idea that just arming people with facts will lead to a better world,’ right, because we’ve just seen that that’s absolutely not true,” says Faith Kearns, author of Getting to the Heart of Science Communication. Kearns argues that we all need to move from an “information deficit” model of communication – where it’s assumed that the audience simply needs more information – to a relational model, where the science communicator does as much listening as talking in order to first find empathy and common ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.4	This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton.
0:19.3	Why is talking about climate change and the science behind it so hard?
0:23.8	Everybody's trying to figure out how do we move past this idea that just arming people with facts will lead to a better world, right?
0:31.7	Because we've just seen that that's absolutely not true.
0:35.1	Scientists are taking lessons from other fields to learn how to reach people
0:38.5	on a deeper level. The only way I've learned how to communicate is by practicing and doing
0:45.8	and failing a lot. And it's not just scientists who are trying to find more effective ways to talk
0:51.6	about the climate emergency. We ended up having about a 50-minute conversation
0:56.6	because not only was he a climate change denier,
0:59.9	but he was also very well versed in all of the denial talking points.
1:04.5	Why is it so hard to communicate the science of climate disruption?
1:08.4	Climate One's empowering conversations
1:10.3	connect all aspects of the climate emergency.
1:13.3	I'm Greg Dalton.
1:16.6	More than half of Americans surveyed by Pew have talked about climate change one to two times in recent weeks,
1:23.0	and that number is even higher for Gen Z and millennials. The majority of all groups surveyed think climate change should be a top priority to ensure a
1:31.3	sustainable future.
1:33.1	While that data may be encouraging, scientists have been ringing the alarm on climate disruption
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