Conversation

Telling people that most scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening can help to nudge their thinking in that direction.

Personal conversations help. Start with things they care about, such as food prices, national security or fishing. There is a climate-change angle to almost everything.

The next step is to listen carefully and connect the dots between a person's experience and local climate information.

For an enduring shift, the message needs to be personally relevant. That’s because “climate change is affecting the people and places and things that we love right now,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, the director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

"It has taken me about 20 years of slow, careful, loving, supportive conversations to change their mind."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02777-9

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