Featuring the CAU: Finding the antidote to climate anxiety through action
16 December 2022
An article looking at new media platforms using stories of climate action to engage the public in news related to climate change: Featuring CAU director Kris De Meyer
Dr Kris De Meyer discusses action-based storytelling, positive role-models and galvinising the public in an article published on the 10/12/2022 with Inside Climate News.
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Excerpts below:
Raising concern and calling for urgent action in the abstract does little to help people figure out how to respond concretely.
Once they’ve listened to that story, you want at least some people to say, ‘Hey, if they can do it, then I can do it as well'
We know that the whole of society needs to transition away from fossil fuels. We all have a role to play in that, regardless of how big or how small our role in society is.