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COMMUNICATING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, CLIMATE CHANGE CONCERNS, AND POLICY THROUGH CARTOONS & METAPHOR

Michelle McCauley Middlebury College

Keven L Kite

InkFall Studios

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North Country Climate Reality: Inspiration, common ground, and action June 6.17.16

Where we are today …

• North Country Climate Reality: Inspiration, Common Ground, And Action

Globally we know we have reasons to care

SO how did we get here?

Psychological factors Scientific Literacy

Belonging, Culture, Materialism Values and connection to nature

• How to engage people in the science without overwhelming them ?

• How to help people become mind FULL about the situation ?

Which Led to

HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME

Using Humor and Metaphor to open conversations

Some are what Bob Mankoff termed idea pictures

Joke +

An idea from this conference last year…..

Repeated themes

Limits Growth

Science literacy & systems Hubris

Consumerism True costs of hydrocarbons

Value of renewables Denial

Silly

Silly

Limits…

Economic/policy perspectives

questions

mites

rant

Science & Scientists

data

procrastination

expectation damages

reminder

Or more quickly

So we hope this type of work will invite people in!

Key to sustainability Kids science comics

And we hope you will share your ideas with us!

We are trying to keep people thinking

Without being scary…