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Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics - Religion and the Environment (Paperback)
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Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics - Religion and the Environment (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
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Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics examines the
intersection of climate skepticism and Christianity and proposes
strategies for engaging climate skeptics in productive
conversations. Despite the scientifically established threats of
climate change, there remains a segment of the American population
that is skeptical of the scientific consensus on climate change and
the urgent need for action. One of the most important stakeholders
and conversants in environmental conversations is the religious
community. While existing studies have discussed environmentalism
as a factor within the religious community, this book positions
religion as an important factor in environmentalism and focuses on
how identities play a role in environmental conversation. Rather
than thinking of religious skeptics as a single unified group, Emma
Frances Bloomfield argues that it is essential to recognize there
are different types of skeptics so that we can better tailor our
communication strategies to engage with them on issues of the
environment and climate change. To do so, this work breaks skeptics
down into three main types: "separators," "bargainers," and
"harmonizers." The book questions monolithic understandings of
climate skepticism and considers how competing narratives such as
religion, economics, and politics play a large role in climate
communication. Considering recent political moves to remove climate
change from official records and withdraw from international
environmental agreements, it is imperative now more than ever to
offer practical solutions to academics, practitioners, and the
public to change the conversation. To address these concerns, this
book provides both a theoretical examination of the rhetoric of
religious climate skeptics and concrete strategies for engaging the
religious community in conversations about the environment. This
book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and
practitioners of climate change science, environmental
communication, environmental policy, and religion. For the 2020
communication awards cycle, Communication Strategies for Engaging
Climate Skeptics: Religion and the Environment has won the
following distinctions: Book of the Year - Argumentation and
Forensics Division of the National Communication Association
Outstanding Book Award - Spiritual Communication Division of the
National Communication Association Book Award Finalist -
Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine
of the National Communication Association
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