Changing How We Talk About Our Changing Climate

By Ray Bassett

Published November 5, 2024 at 2:19 AM EST

(Aired Thu 10/31/24)

How do we bridge our political divides in talking about our changing climate?

How we talk about it may hold the key.

Kathleen Biggins is the founder and president of C-Change Conversations, which educates people across the political spectrum nationwide with a nonpartisan presentation of the science - just the facts - behind today’s rising sea levels, more intense storms and deadly heat.

I spoke with Kathleen a few weeks ago, when she came to our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - sponsored by UTC’s Environmental Studies program and Read2Achieve.

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