Thursday, November 14th, 3:30-4:30pm in AUST 434
Title: Not the End of the World: Challenging Cultural Narratives About Climate Change
Description: People are storytellers and story-listeners, and the stories we tell one another about climate change have become a huge impediment to actually achieving sustainability. Framing climate stories about fear and blame, guilt and shame, or environmental benefits vs economic prosperity are dominant in many cultures yet have been pretty ineffective in motivating change on the scale that’s required to meet stated international policy goals.
A. Scott Denning, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Climate Science
Yale School of the Environment
For more information, contact: Katie Baldi at katie.baldi@uconn.edu