Why it's hard to care about climate change

Bringing up climate change is one tried and true way to ruin a dinner party — and leave people feeling helpless and apathetic. But it doesn’t have to be that way, if we change how we communicate. So let’s talk, about how we talk, about climate change.

Reporter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner
Camera: Chris Caurla
Cutter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner
Graphics: Frederik Willmann
Supervising editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Joanna Gottschalk, Malte Rohwer-Kahlman

We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read more:

Climate disinformation database:
https://www.desmog.com/climate-disinformation-database/

Barriers to climate reporting:
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-01/Newman%20-%20Trends%20and%20Predictions%202022%20FINAL.pdf

How to have a climate conversation:
https://climateoutreach.org/reports/how-to-have-a-climate-change-conversation-talking-climate/

Discourses of delay:
https://www.celinekeller.com/discourses-of-climate-delay

(Almost) all scientists agree on climate change:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966

Media attention on climate change:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.020

IPCC Report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM_final.pdf

00:00 Intro
01:26 How bad is it?
02:45 Climate science is complicated
05:12 Balance as bias
08:22 How we feel
10:26 Solutions

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