Founding Director, End Climate Silence. Affiliate Faculty, The New School. Next Book: The Language of Climate Politics (Oxford UP).
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More than 3 million adults were forced to evacuate their homes in 2022 due to extreme weather.
Around 480,000 of them were unable to return.
This is about three times the number of evacuees up to 2021.
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Thank you both!
Perhaps both those attitudes are at least partly shaped by a lack of imaginative connection to other people?
In any case, the trick is to address these beliefs by appealing to people's self-interest (I believe), which is, uh, challenging.
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It is very hard to design one message that might reach both these categories of people.
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The attitudes of many people I know who don't work on climate tend to fall into two categories:
A) It sucks for the poor but money will save *us* — and isn't climate change supposed to be a lot less bad than we thought anyway? So 🤷
B) We are all doomed. So 🤷
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I can't follow her from mastodon.energy just fyi — her server is asking me to create an account on it first...
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