Communicating the Climate Crisis - New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead

Communicating the Climate Crisis lays out fresh directions and strategies for creating a new story of hope through action-not as isolated and "guilty" consumers, but as social actors who use emotional resilience, climate conversations, justice, and faith to break the current social inertia and create a desired future.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Eairth
Chapter 2: Fossil Fuel Culture
Chapter 3: Individuals as Social Actors, Not Consumers
Chapter 4: Emotions and Climate Silence
Chapter 5: Breaking the Silence: Strategies for Talking About Climate Change
Chapter 6: Justice and Faith: The Moral Imperative of Climate Change
Chapter 7: A New Relationship with Eairth
Chapter 8: Telling a New Story

About the author

Julia B. Corbett is professor in the Department of Communication and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, University of Utah.

Summary

Communicating the Climate Crisis lays out fresh directions and strategies for creating a new story of hope through action—not as isolated and “guilty” consumers, but as social actors who use emotional resilience, climate conversations, justice, and faith to break the current social inertia and create a desired future.

Product details

• Authors: Julia B. Corbett, Corbett Julia B.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781793638021
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-802-1
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Environmental Communication an; Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; NATURE / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, natural history, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Communication Studies