a big consistency I fans about how to
talk to climate change deniers is that
you need to know your audience this
video is for people who accept the
scientific consensus that human activity
is causing global warming and therefore
creating climate change this video is
going to be a step-by-step process about
how to talk to climate change deniers in
order to convince them the first thing
you're going to do is ask questions your
instinct might be to start listing off
all the scientific facts a statistic but
studies continue to show that with
climate change deniers facts don't
matter asking questions about them also
keeps you from yelling which sometimes
is what you might want to do but we need
you calm which leads to the second point
now which is that science minded people
we're gonna have to grow a little local
library and take a class on how to story
town there's a neurological reason why
we need stories because the parts of our
brains that react to stories are more
linked to emotion and action and if you
want a good example think about the
image and the story behind the straw and
the turtles nose it created the
revolution of straw the straw revolution
the revolution of the straw
it's whities there are parties to bond
with people about stories about movies
about true crime podcasts about smooth
these stories like my favorite one
Berenstein bears in the dark and the
part of your brain that analyzes and
processes scientific information it's
more related to logical thinking and
inaction some scholars think the
Scientific Revolution in the
Enlightenment was anti story before that
people were like we're the center of
everything and that's rainbow over there
that is a spirit after the Scientific
Revolution they're like we're actually
the center of nothing we're just
insignificant animals on a tiny planet
revolving around the Sun in an ever
expanding universe was created billions
of years ago and rainbow over there
that's just light through water babe so
here are some stories to keep in your
back pocket the first story I like to
bring up all the time is called the
biggest lie about climate change I made
a video about this if you want to get
all the detailed information essentially
large oil companies were some of the
first people to fund scientists to
figure out the impacts of what would
happen if we released all the co2 into
the atmosphere they found very early on
in the 70s and 80s that it would cause
the destruction that is currently
causing right now they knew that if
people found out they would be regulated
and they would lose money they'd lie to
everyone including your mom they planted
the seed of climate
shanell and now we are all suffering at
the hands of them and they have billions
of dollars and they need to be sued and
I think that this is a really important
angle I think we can all get on board
the billionaires behind these oil
companies being the bad guys in our
narratives but there's a great Hollywood
movie that you can watch with the
climate change denier or tell them to
watch and it's called Deepwater Horizon
it's about the BP oil spill you got
romance you got dad gods gutters bad
guys which are the oil execs trying to
make billions of dollars while people
die and the environment is destroyed or
maybe in the story should the bad guy
just be the molecule carbon dioxide like
I don't know I'm a little desperate here
and I'm going to kill you or at least
your great-grandchildren now the climate
crisis is becoming more and more
apparent every day we are gonna be
innately having more and more stories
about its effects and of course we have
Greta and the reason that she's working
is she has an amazing story and she is
emotional and she is honest and that is
what is resonating with people and if
you choose to fail us I say we will
never forgive you stories are important
but we also need to have the scientific
information at a certain point in this
conversation you are going to need to be
equipped at this point maybe they're
throwing some random studies out
throwing in some conspiracy theories to
kind of spook you and we can't be
equipped to argue against every
pseudoscience article about climate
change too now because to be honest
there's a lot of them thankfully there
is a specific website that does all of
this work for you called skeptical
science they take all the popular
climate change denial arguments and then
they lay out very clearly the correct
scientific data they linked to many
peer-reviewed articles on the subject
they also divide it from beginner to
expert so depending on your comfort
level with science they give you a
synopsis that fits for you if they're
throwing things at you in this
conversation just once I've got a pee go
to the bathroom open up the website find
the argument they're telling you get all
the scientific backed information open
the studies go sit down and be like well
are you here baby I got the goods or
don't say it like that it maybe kind of
sounds like you're hitting on them I
don't know if they could be cute
hopefully at this point you might have
got somewhere with them but maybe not
and that leads to the most challenging
part of all of these conversations the
most controversial
part of this topic and something that I
need your help with which is the big
ideological issue okay we're gonna zoom
in on America right now oh look at
America a center of the world yet again
just kidding I'm Canadian very similar
what climate change denial a lot of
people think it has to do with religion
it doesn't the main reason that people
deny climate change are political and
economic ideologies the fundamental
framework of climate change denial is
that climate change is a liberal hoax
fabricated in order to usher in secretly
socialism but what about the scientists
who say it's worse than ever you have to
show me the scientists because they have
a very big political agenda that's like
how does free-market conservatives I'm
relate to climate change very much so
relates to the policies that the Left
pushes in the name of global warming you
might start to realize that you butt
heads with them about a specific thing
which is regulation whether we should be
diverting our funds to support an
ideology instead of maximizing our
investments in national security
psychological studies have actually
found that people with a worldview more
inclined towards collective action
social justice and skepticism of
corporate power are more likely to
accept the scientific consensus on
climate change on the other hand the
same psychological studies found that
those with a worldview that's more
individualistic skeptical of government
and more supportive of corporations are
more likely to not accept the scientific
consensus on climate change these are
fundamental beliefs these are worldviews
these are people's identities I think
this is the crux of a lot of the
conversations you will be having with
the climate change denier and so right
now I'm gonna tell you the types of
information that I have found Debbie
Dooley is a Republican Tea Party member
who really is trying to combat climate
change denial within their party you
have to understand one thing the
Republican Party has always been in the
past a party of conservation she likes
to point out that Richard Nixon created
the EPA interesting give us all across
this great land has a stake in
maintaining and improving environmental
quality Ronald Reagan signed the
Montreal Protocol with
really help to fix the big giant hole in
our ozone layer pretty cool eh she likes
to say things like a diverse energy grid
leads to energy freedom energy choice
competition
national security innovation and I think
those are obviously buzzwords but
they're good buzzwords and let's use
them I do not know how we make climate
change become a conversation outside of
ideological issues so please please
please help me in the comments well I'm
gonna read them all let me know if you
have any suggestions any books any
research to read I guess this is me
being vulnerable asking for help which
leads to the last point of the research
that I found which is that in these
conversations you need to be vulnerable
it is important that we talk about kids
I became a science teacher because I
love children when I see kids start to
think about the climate crisis and what
are these kids gonna think when they
grow up and look back and think we did
nothing let alone think that we denied
what was going on I can't even imagine
what it would be like to be a kid right
now I think we see them screaming at the
Friday's for future marches and being
vulnerable and scared for the next
generation could be a powerful tool in
these conversations and it is up to us
as adults to fight for these kids
climate change isn't gonna happen or not
it's happening and the way that we react
to it and when we react to it is gonna
decide how severe this issue is going to
be Ricans are amazing we make the
musical Hamilton I saw it recently and I
was lying - how did you do this we
understand the Big Bang we are really in
people when we put our minds together we
can figure this out so thanks for
watching and peace