How to Beat the Climate Change Complexity Monster
The following is an excerpt from a maintain what blog post.
Journalist and academic Andrew C. @Revkin At CLIMLIFE, join us via video for a heart-to-heart talk about climate communications, news and relationships @UiB_HF Interdisciplinary Climate Change Conference “Living with Climate Change” @UiB 🌍🌱💡#ClimlifeBergen pic.twitter.com/qRcl92lUcn
— Emil Perron (@EmilPerron) May 8, 2023
The Norwegian University of Bergen has just concluded two days of valuable conferences on the theme “fight climate change“
core focus? How to deal with seemingly profound contradictions: “While there is widespread agreement that action to mitigate climate change is urgently needed, people must also go about their daily lives, attending to the needs and interests of themselves, their families, and their communities.” (First day live. View highlights via Twitter #climlifebergen.)
I was honored to be invited to give the opening keynote, but was unable to attend. It’s not just about flying less; my older son just got married in Nashville. So I pre-recorded our conversation on the coast of Maine. Here’s the video, then the transcript.
greeting. I couldn’t think of a better way to explore the conference theme from afar than on a small stretch of oceanfront in Wabanaki, Maine.
After 30 years in upstate New York’s Hudson Valley, my wife and I moved here last year in part to be closer to her mom, who was born 91 years ago in a nearby lobster village and still lives there . Like you and the other 8 billion people living on this planet, we are living with climate change here…
Read the rest of the story on the Sustain What blog.
