I would call the 2010s maybe the doom and gloom era of climate change communication. And the thing is that it got people's attention. So I think the focus on kind of scaring people and talking about how, you know, awful everything was made people sit up and listen for a period of time. But the problem is doom and gloom messaging doesn't necessarily motivate action.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson — The Conduct of Life
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Thomas Jefferson — Letter to John Garland Jefferson
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