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🗓️ 22 September 2023
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A bit of insight on word choice and climate conversations, culled from a piece by John Marshall at Potential Energy Coalition.
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0:00.0 | Hi everybody, this short segment is what we call for the good of the order. |
0:10.9 | It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings if you can believe that, |
0:15.0 | where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, |
0:18.4 | a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went |
0:25.0 | about daily life. |
0:26.7 | And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in |
0:31.5 | the world that I want to bring back and hand off to you. |
0:34.8 | So every Friday, we produce a short segment called for the good of the order. |
0:39.5 | Think of it like an audio greeting card. |
0:42.0 | A thing to share with the people that you love around the country who you don't get to |
0:46.0 | see or talk to enough. |
0:48.0 | A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to on a more regular basis. |
0:53.7 | This is Kelly Corrigan-Wenders for the good of the order. |
0:56.7 | All right, so this one really felt worth sharing. |
1:18.2 | This is from a group called Potential Energy and they think about communications around |
1:23.8 | highly polarized issues, most importantly, climate change. |
1:28.6 | They are made up of marketing communications, experts and professionals who are thinking |
1:35.4 | about and studying the way to talk about something when you want to make change. |
1:40.0 | And so there was this sentiment that they noticed that people were afraid to talk directly |
1:44.3 | about climate change, that we should celebrate solutions without harping on the problem. |
1:51.1 | And so that means like when you're selling a clean energy project, you would hype up |
1:54.6 | the jobs and avoid mentioning the impact it might have on climate change because everybody |
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