The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it | Katharine Hayhoe
TED Talks Science and Medicine
TED
4.2 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ ? minutes
Summary
How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion -- and to prompt people to realize that they already care about a changing climate. "We can't give in to despair," she says. "We have to go out and look for the hope we need to inspire us to act -- and that hope begins with a conversation, today."
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