You need to tie it to security or something else that directly hits people’s selfish interests.
e.g. If your country can’t go without importing fossil fuels from the middle east or any other unstable area, you are not safe.
Or: don’t give money to petrostates like russia who will then use it against you.
It is really interesting that when people focus on getting their personal lives in order they loose impetus to take community level action like vote. “a single vote in a recent national election in Canada could be more than 20 times as effective as skipping a long flight” brings it into focus.
Even in Australia where voting is compulsory we see the effect in that voting for non climate change issues is an issue.
Climate scientists wont gain any traction among Americans if they keep using Celsius to explain the temperature increasing.
Maybe best not even talking about the temperature number. It’s all but meaningless and a lot of people (uh) like warm climates. I’m thinking it would be better to talk exclusively about the numbers around things like flooding, fires, species loss.
Oh yeah, let put the whole world back into the 1800’s because the USA as per usual can’t get it’s shit together.
I get what you’re saying but it’s exhausting that “Thu best countruh!” still doesn’t understand that things can actually be better because they’re too drowned in the propaganda that their backward ways are superior.
Do you actually think that it’s more important to fuss about using the temperature scale that you prefer and only that scale in all science communication than to actually reach a wider population with your message and reduce the rate of climate change? How does this differ from some Americans complaining about multi-lingual instructions because “speak American”?
