Modern Australian

To get conservative climate contrarians to really listen, try speaking their language

  • Written by Jamie Freestone, PhD student in literature, The University of Queensland
To get conservative climate contrarians to really listen, try speaking their languagePeople will listen more when they like what they're hearing.Shutterstock.com

It’s a well-studied fact that facts don’t speak for themselves. This is especially apparent with climate change. Some brilliant studies in the past ten years have shown that people respond to narratives about climate change, not raw facts.

We also know that...