How to talk to someone who doesn’t believe in climate change
“Climate change has become one of the taboo topics — like sex, politics and religion — that doesn’t get talked about at the Thanksgiving table,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. “In fact, most of us are willing and even interested to discuss it, but their perception is other people don’t want to.”
So go ahead and engage with the uncle who insists the weather’s always been changing and it has nothing to do with us.
Or the cousin who can’t make up her mind about anything — whether global warming is real or not, whether it’s serious or not, or whether it’s human-caused or not.
Here’s some advice to guide you.
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