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Communicating the Climate Crisis

New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead

Av Julia B. Corbett

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Communicating the Climate Crisis puts communication at the center of the change we need, providing concrete strategies that help break the inertia that blocks social and cultural transformation. Reimagining “earth” not just as the ground we walk upon but as the atmosphere we breathe—Eairth—this 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 mental health tolls of the crisis that lead to climate silence. Breaking that silence through personal climate conversations elevates the importance of the problem, finds common ground, and eases “climate anxiety.” Climate justice and faith-based worldviews help 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.
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Julia B. Corbett is professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, University of Utah.

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Corbett…[makes] a valuable contribution to the contemporary climate change conversation. In a sea of politically divisive, self-serving denier narratives and fear-inspiring scientific predictions, Corbett steers a course of hopeful, informed, and effective "conversations," addressing readers directly to inspire positive action. Tables and extensive chapter notes provide valuable research sources, and each chapter includes hands-on persuasive suggestions for how to evoke emotionally authentic responses in others. While Corbett acknowledges that top-down strategies emanating from international, national/federal, and regional government sources are likely the most effective for dealing with a global problem (as confirmed by evidence from addressing contemporary free-rider COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy/denier issues), her book focuses almost exclusively on bottom-up, grassroots strategies. This contrast nearly amounts to a problem, but Corbett's text conveys hope that creating direct responses evoked by personal stories/narratives will help readers contribute to ground-level, incremental solutions and pressures, ultimately influencing top-down decision makers. This book is sure to function as a source of helpful academic information as well as a primer for the ongoing development of communication and social practices around grassroots actions to foster community-based climate change solutions. Highly recommended. All readers.

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