Climate change is complex. If you elaborate too much on the complexity, people get bored or overwhelmed and stop listening. But if you simplify it too much, people are less informed and aren’t empowered on how to proceed.
Good climate change communication finds a balance between complexity and simplicity.
Tag: climate change
Eco-Anxiety is the Cherry On Top of the Climate Crisis Sundae
The APA defines eco-anxiety as “the chronic fear of environmental cataclysm that comes from observing the seemingly irrevocable impact of climate change and the associated concern for one’s future and that of next generations.” Though not yet an official illness in the DSM-5 (the manual for mental illness), the effects of eco-anxiety are nothing to be ignored.
Not an Equal Opportunity Crisis: Who’s Most Affected by Climate Change
Hence, a big determining factor: does climate change affect me personally or not? The fact of the matter is that the people who are most affected by climate change generally a) have little power to combat its affects and b) are contributing to the problem the least. Seems unfair to me.