KEY POINTS
  • Communicating about climate change effectively is critical to get people to engage with it productively, according to climate psychologist Renée Lertzman.
  • First, there has to be an honest acknowledgement that we can not solve climate change alone. The narrative has to be reframed from one of "me" to one of "we."
  • Second, we have to have compassion for feeling sadness, anger and anxiety about what is happening to the planet while also focusing on solutions.
Renée Lertzman, climate psychologist

Communicating about climate change effectively is critical to get people to engage with it productively, according to climate psychologist Renée Lertzman. And right now, communications about climate change are not helping.

People are scared.