successful climate
communication: 1. “employs frames that support the message with positive emotions” 2. “makes climate-friendly behaviors easy and convenient” (this, per: per espen stoknes, norwegian psychologist, in 2015) ok – so – know this: most places on earth are not suffering anthropogenic climage change- induced weather catastrophes at the moment: for instance: l.f.k., 6-17: hi: 84; normal hi: 85 lo: 68; normal lo: 64 partly sunny; bad as weather has gotten, it’s not as bad as the 10,000s dead from cyclones, flooding, famine we’ve seen in recent years; & if you act now, you can spare future generations cyclones, flooding, famine and prepare your community for same for just $5 a month . . . . . . we interrupt this program w/this special bulletin: greenland temps 100f above normal in june: sled dogs walking on water! (& i know i said no arctic stuff, but they’re saying it affects weather farther south like here); villages in w. alaska moved due to erosion due to thawing. saskatchewan in drought. “as you walk along you see what look like logs poking out the permafrost. but they aren’t logs, they are the bones of mammoths and other pleistocene animals” melting into the open ok – i see what stoknes means but the times aren’t giving us much to work with – like the corn belt, where planting moves slower than any season on record; corn price at 5-year hi (floods) meanwhile more floods in brazil, mexico, new bruswick; epic landslide onto highway connecting eastern colombia to rest of the country – 30 metric tons of soil, rock removal “hindered by ongoing rains”; 3k uruguayans displaced by floods; 50k people need help in yemen - flooding – women in the “door” of tarpaulin tent in camp; 364k cases of cholera this year; evolution makes us: self-interested imitative status-hungry think in short-term disregard threats we can’t see not a great recipe, under the circumstances more record highs in honolulu: “when i moved here 30 yrs back” (friend in hawai’i) “no need of A/C: trade winds instead. now it’s hot for month after month after month”; even 2015 seems so long ago . . . nowadays all those graphs & maps that go from blue to scarlet & we're in the red; we tune out block out, per per stoknes . . . global wheat price ↑ 30% due to australian harvest ↓ thirty percent. a staple. in addition to the strategies above, stoknes recommends: 3. using “the power of social networks”; cambodian govt. denies link between massive de- forestation and temps in 100s; 4. using “the power of stories to create meaning and community”; “with 43 per cent of india engulfed in a drought, 600 million people are reeling under its fury” – from “india is drying up, fast,” devinder sharma tribuneindia.com 10s of 1000s abandoning villages 5. using “indicators for feedback on societal response”; “drought leaves key african hydro dam less than a third full”; already 90f in moscow – more people connecting weather & climate & politics - hail in switzerland, france sinks boats, breaks windshields, ruins fruit crops; corsica had snow last month, now it’s 104 iraq: “wrapping outside door handles in tape to stop them getting too hot in the sun or stepping fully clothed into curbside showers to cool off.” first it was prevention, then mitigation, then resilience and adaptation . . . how do we make it fun and simple? how do we make it?
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Kristin Prevallet Author/Editor
I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |