I mean, one of the biggest epiphanies that i had while doing this work is that so much of the time we completely aline on values, but there are buzz words or policies or just other things that are really devisive and prevent the conversation from happening. And people use different language. So it also doesn't make sense that we would have like a one sized fitzall approach to campaigning or talking about the green new deal, or maticerforal or lowering student debt. Those conversations require a different dialect in rural communities like mine. You wrote and helped pass an act to establish a green new deal for maine. It was the first green new deal legislation to
Most Americans support climate action, but you wouldn’t know it from Congress or the courts – or from most of the media. People on both the left and the right experience the same devastating floods, the same life-threatening heatwaves and the same catastrophic wildfires. Yet individuals tend to socialize within insulated political tribes, operate in completely different information bubbles and see the problems and solutions through different lenses. How can we learn to bridge ideological divides, develop trust, and find the common ground needed to rebuild respectful civil discourse?
Guests:
Chloe Maxmin, Maine State Senator
Joan Blades, Co-founder, LivingRoomConversations.org
John Gable, Co-founder, AllSides.com
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