The Rise of the Alarmed, Concerned and Disengaged

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Sally Kohn: The people who are most concerned about climate change have what we call egalitarian values. She says they care deeply about discrimination in society and that the government should be trying to eradicate poverty. By contrast, there's a different value system that we call radical individualism for those who don't think it is worth worrying about. Kohn: Climate change is like the mother of all collective action problems. There's no silver bullet here. It's going to take a portfolio approach.

We agree more than we think we do, but tech platforms distort our perceptions by amplifying the loudest, angriest and most dismissive voices online. In reality, they’re just a noisy faction. This Earth Day we ask Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, how he shifts public opinion on climate change. We’ll see how tech platforms could amplify voices of solidarity within our own communities. More importantly, we’ll see how they could empower 2 billion people to act in the face of global threats.