For one of my actions I am trying to learn more tactics for talking to people about climate change, especially people who are either not concerned or don't believe in climate change. A couple days ago I watched a video called , "Step up your climate action and talk to people about climate change". It was good! One of the facts that was in the video was that only 20% of Americans hear someone they know talk about climate change once a month or more!!! This is crazy! I knew that a lot of people don't talk about climate change on a regular basis, and don't hear people around them talk about it, but it still really stood out to me how little people that is! Personally, I want to learn how to be a lot better at talking about different issues around climate change in creative ways and allowing the issue to be more inclusive to people in the way I talk about it, as well as using my sharing what I believe is a very important issue with my family. People in general are so much more likely to change their thinking if someone around them talks to them rather than someone on TV or a random person they don't know. In many ways this is so encouraging because everyone has all of these connections that they can utilize. It's definitely still hard though to try and bridge that gap. Because I have family that doesn't believe in climate change, I'm trying to do a lot of research around this and figure out better ways to have serious conversations with them. I also want to have more conversations with more people in general about this without just making people kind of bummed out. If anyone wants to practice or wants any of the resources I have started looking at hmu!
