“The arrival of this scale of climate suffering in the modern West will be one of the great and terrible stories of the coming decades.”
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
“That was the finding of a 2017 Nature paper surveying the full breadth of the academic literature: that despite a strong consensus among climate scientists about “hope” and “fear” and what qualifies as responsible storytelling, there is no single way to best tell the story of climate change, no single rhetorical approach likely to work on a given audience, and none too dangerous to try. Any story that sticks is a good one.”
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
“But that prior caution was understandable. Scientists spent decades presenting the unambiguous data, demonstrating to anyone who would listen just what kind of crisis will come for the planet if nothing is done, and then watched, year after year, as nothing was done. It should not be altogether surprising that they returned again and again to the communications greenroom, scratching their heads about rhetorical strategy and “messaging.”
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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