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Communicating the Climate Crisis Julia B. Corbett

Communicating the Climate Crisis By Julia B. Corbett

Communicating the Climate Crisis by Julia B. Corbett


Summary

Communicating the Climate Crisis lays out fresh directions and strategies for creating a new story of hope through action-not as isolated and guilty consumers, but as social actors who use emotional resilience, climate conversations, justice, and faith to break the current social inertia and create a desired future.

Communicating the Climate Crisis Summary

Communicating the Climate Crisis: New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead by Julia B. Corbett

Communicating the Climate Crisis puts communication at the center of the change we need, providing concrete strategies that help break the social inertia that blocks social change and cultural transformation. After reimagining earth not just as the ground upon which we walk but as the atmosphere we breathe-Eairth-the book examines our consumption-based identities in fossil fuel culture and the necessity of structural change to address the climate crisis. Strategies for overcoming obstacles start with facing the emotional challenges (and the mental health tolls) of the crisis that lead to climate silence. Breaking that silence through personal climate conversations is a powerful tool that elevates the importance of the problem, finds common ground, and eases climate anxiety. The lens of climate justice and faith-based worldviews helps articulate our moral responsibility to take drastic action to protect all humans and the living world. This book tells a new story of hope through action-not as isolated, guilty consumers but as social actors who engage hearts, hands, and minds to envision and create a desired future.

Communicating the Climate Crisis Reviews

In this comprehensive and engagingly written book, Julia Corbett lays out not only the scientific, philosophical, and emotional dimensions of global climate change, but a compelling primer for more effective communication about the most pressing environmental crisis of our time. This is a book for teachers and students, activists and politicians, scientists and artists-for anyone hoping to do a better job of communicating climate change or to understand how effective communication can enable all of us to face our changing planet.

-- Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho

In her book Communicating the Climate Crisis, Julia Corbett stands unblinking in front of humanity's fiercest enemy-like David stood before Goliath. In a calming voice, she patiently explains to her readers how we made this foe, and how with the strategic use of communication we can unmake it-and thereby create a better and more sustainable world.

-- Ed Maibach, Director, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University

About Julia B. Corbett

Julia B. Corbett is professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, University of Utah.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Eairth

Chapter 2: Fossil Fuel Culture

Chapter 3: Individuals as Social Actors, Not Consumers

Chapter 4: Emotions and Climate Silence

Chapter 5: Breaking the Silence: Strategies for Talking About Climate Change

Chapter 6: Justice and Faith: The Moral Imperative of Climate Change

Chapter 7: A New Relationship with Eairth

Chapter 8: Telling a New Story

Additional information

NGR9781793638021
9781793638021
1793638020
Communicating the Climate Crisis: New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead by Julia B. Corbett
New
Hardback
Lexington Books
2021-02-22
230
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