The GL Climate Connections program helps people connect the dots between climate change and their daily lives. It's a national radio program, so old school, but we also do it on social media. We tell two different kinds of stories: First-person narratives of individuals from every walk of life who are talking about how climate change is affecting them right here, right now.
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.