SLIDE 1 Max Boykoff
Associate Professor University of Colorado Boulder
19 September 2019 Clean Energy Legislative Academy
(dinner entertainment)
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dominant scientific ways of knowing/learning
SLIDE 3
expanding pathways
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pathways to learning about & knowing climate change “Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and we are at a defining moment. Scientists have been telling us for decades. Over and over again. Far too many leaders have refused to listen.” ~ António Guterres, the UN Secretary General
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pathways to learning about & knowing climate change
SLIDE 6 individual to collective action challenges
Van der Linden et al (2017)
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5 rules of the road 5 features on a road map be authentic. be aware. be accurate. be imaginative. be bold.
find common ground. emphasize here and now. focus on benefits of engagement. creatively empower people. smarten up.
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creatively communicating about climate change
THE PROJECT:
a living laboratory at CU Boulder, an intentional space for development and experimentation with creative modes to creatively communicate, evaluate and confront climate change
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- a handbook/guide
- helps to ‘smarten up’
climate change communications
- there is no ‘silver bullet’
= ‘silver buckshot’ approaches are needed
SLIDE 10 chosen title (and parentheses)
1.transferable guidance for other issues 2.can approach ‘climate’
through other issues
SLIDE 11
thank you
Max Boykoff
@boykoff