Future Left Podcast Ep. 32: Persuasion & Climate Change
We often do our best to convert skeptics of climate change in our circle of friends and family. We get mixed results. So we did some research on a few arguments that might be more compelling than say... science or data, as well as the science of persuasion.
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Our reading list:
Welcome to the Anthropocene: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0830/Welcome-to-the-new-age-Has-the-Anthropocene-epoch-begun
It will be really bad for property values: http://www.zillow.com/research/climate-change-underwater-homes-12890/
Climate Change is bad for GDP: http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/reduce-emissions/economics-climate-factsheet.html#.V8Xy-CgrKUk
Goods in Jeopardy
- Coffee: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/01/coffee-catastrophe-beckons-as-climate-change-threatens-arabica-plan
- Tequila: https://www.yahoo.com/news/heres-why-tequila-feeling-heat-climate-change-224758923.html?ref=gs
- Chocolate: https://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2014/oct/29/diet-climate-maple-syrup-coffee-global-warming
Climate change will kill you: https://thinkprogress.org/four-climate-health-infographics-99784261f442#.bqkaznv88
Biodiversity: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/
Humans Extinction:
- 19% chance of human extinction by 2100: http://futureoflife.org/2016/07/22/climate-change-is-the-most-urgent-existential-risk/
- Don’t worry, only 9.5% chance according to the Stern Report: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/a-human-extinction-isnt-that-unlikely/480444/
Per Espen Stoknes: http://e360.yale.edu/feature/how_can_we_make_people_care_about_climate_change/2892/
