Talking about climate change and having conversations about how climate is impacting the things we love can be a powerful tool for climate action.
How confident are you about starting a conversation with family about climate change? How comfortable are you bringing up the topic of climate impacts when chatting with friends? Today’s episode is all about how to talk about climate and why it matters.
Katie Harper is a Senior Advisor at Project Neutral and is currently helping to design and facilitate Talk Climate To Me, a fun, free, unscary online climate education experience for women-identifying people in Canada.
Katie teaches that it’s all about connecting the dots between what we love and care about and how climate is impacting those things we cherish. She reminds us that we are the trusted messenger and we can influence the people in our lives to consider the importance of climate change and climate action. That can be powerful.
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The Concordia researcher Katie mentions re: mommy-blogging research is Kathryn Jezer-Morton. She is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Concordia University researching the transition that mommy-blogs have undergone since 2012. In particular, how online platforms have created affordances that have allowed for previously untold accounts of motherhood to become socially significant.
