Whose Truth?: Climate change denial

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Nobel Prize laureate Sir Paul Nurse wants science, not politics, to guide the debate surrounding climate change. But how do you convince the denialists? Babita Sharma takes us through the evolving strategies of those who claim climate change isn’t real, and speaks to two young people who are trying to make a difference. UK climate activist Phoebe L Hanson founded Teach the Teacher, which gives school children the resources to engage with their teachers on climate change. Ugandan Nyombi Morris set up a non-profit organisation, Earth Volunteers, to mobilise young people like him who wanted to promote the fight against the climate crisis.

This content was created as a co-production between Nobel Prize Outreach and the BBC. Image credit: Francis Crick Institute

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0:00.0	What makes me remember that day is the time my dad left me and my mom and my siblings.
0:08.0	Nionbi Morris was 10 years old when his family's farm was swamped by floods in Uganda.
0:14.0	I saw it happening because we slept on the street for two days before coming to Kampala and
0:19.8	when we came to Kampala everything has been a mess.
0:22.6	Nionbi's family became one of the thousands fleeing their homes each year
0:26.9	because of the impact of the climate emergency.
0:29.6	Like I used to even to ask my mom, when we going back to our place like why are we in camp,
0:35.4	Pala why are we here like I don't have friends I don't have anything and she used to ignore
0:40.4	trying to play it cool until one day she took me back to the area and
0:44.7	say this was where we used to stay. I know you don't remember but this is where I used to
0:48.8	stay but we left you to floods. The United Nations estimates that environmental disasters caused by climate
0:56.1	change are now forcing twice as many people from their homes than conflict or violence.
1:02.4	Yet despite the impact on millions of lives,
1:05.2	denial and lies about the issue
1:07.4	continue to spread online.
1:09.6	We know that in the last couple of years,
1:11.5	people who have espoused conspiratorial views say about the World Economic Forum, about COVID, about vaccines, have also embraced quite often theories about climate change in climate denial.
1:25.6	So can the scientists get their message across?
1:29.3	Understanding climate is complex. It's not straightforward physics. There are many many
1:36.0	things going on. And can a new generation tackle online distortions amid all
1:41.6	the other challenges they're facing.
1:43.4	They see apathy which I don't think is necessarily because people don't care.
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