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Category: Environment & Sustainability

January 30, 2020 By Susan C. Strong

Framing #ClimateDamage for the #ClimateHoldouts

For too long too much of our climate crisis framing has resonated only with the already convinced. That is still going on today, this very minute. Even Greta is doing it, with an important exception I’ll mention later in this piece. But before the rest of us can get more effective, we need to be […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Environment & Sustainability, Still Featured Tagged With: #ClimateDamage, #FossilFuel, business, capitalism, Chorofluorocarbons, ClimateDamageCosts, ClimateHoldouts, ClimateSafetProfits, economics, finance, framing, oil, organizing, SeatBelts

September 22, 2017 By Susan C. Strong

Reframe “climate change,” in 3 Steps!

When hurricanes Harvey and Irma blew into Houston, the entire state of Florida, and the Caribbean, they also blew a big hole in the EPA’s attack on clean energy. Pruitt’s claim that it was “insensitive” to talk about what actually caused so much damage fell flat too. Everyone who accepts climate science is more determined […]

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October 15, 2016 By Susan C. Strong

Re Climate Action: Stay Tuned for an Update of this Blog Post!

Note to Readers: The original title of this blog post was Re Climate Action: “Protect & Prevent” or Make War & Control,” and it assumed that Clinton would win the 2016 election. But I am now working on an update of this piece, since Trump won the election instead. Check out this space again in […]

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November 20, 2015 By Susan C. Strong

Framing Climate Change Action Now: An Update    

As the coming Paris U.N. Conference on Climate Change picks up a lot of temporary media attention, we all need to upgrade our climate change and climate action framing. That means using the best frames for every aspect of our climate change action communication: about the problems, the solutions, and even our own strategies. For […]

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Filed Under: Environment & Sustainability Tagged With: climate action, climate change action, climate change organizing, climate disruption, framing, U.N.Paris Climate conference

April 24, 2015 By Susan C. Strong

Say “Rebate, not Dividend”

Although there is some good news about growing levels of renewable and energy efficiency worldwide, we still need a much more vigorous climate change response, especially in the U.S. Right now California and the American West are looking down the barrel of a devastating drought with no end in sight. Methane sinks from Alaska to […]

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September 11, 2014 By Susan C. Strong

Framing Climate Change Action Now: Advice, Slogans, & The “Necessity” Frame

Right now many people are preparing for the People’s Climate March, in New York or in many locations around the country. So I’m getting requests for slogan ideas for signs and other demonstration pr. Below are three items that can give folks some ideas about what to say on signs and other demonstration media. 1.The […]

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April 26, 2014 By Susan C. Strong

Say “Let’s get to climate safety fast!”

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released 4.03.14, strongly urges a  fast shift to clean energy.  Since the last report, carbon emissions have accelerated to unprecedented levels. Impact on land, sea, and air is growing catastrophic much faster than scientists predicted. Yet national governments continue to drag their feet about mandating the […]

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January 11, 2014 By Susan C. Strong

SOS: Framing the Climate Protection Act Now

Senators Boxer and Sanders are now back on track promoting their Climate Protection Act, and I am happy to note that they describe what companies would pay as a carbon ‘fee,’ not a ‘tax.’ After all, it’s a ‘pay to play’ situation for business, and that is the definition of a ‘fee,’ not a tax. […]

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November 2, 2013 By Susan C. Strong

Framing Climate Change Action Now

There is evidence that a number of American citizens know we have a climate change problem. But many of them experience it as something we can’t fix technically, socially or politically. So they ignore it to keep going day by day. Among the already convinced, that’s where the issue is stuck. But we also have […]

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March 2, 2012 By Susan C. Strong

Reframing Climate Change Now

Two big things have happened recently on the climate change front. The first, of course, is Peter Gleick’s great personal sacrifice—his desperate gamble taken to expose the Heartland Institute’s planned assault on climate science in our schools, funded by the Kochs and other fossil fuel interests.(1) The second big thing is coming from the kids […]

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