How to speak with your family and friends about environmental issues

We are currently facing a wide range of enormous environmental crises, including biodiversity loss and climate change. Human activities are driving many of these problems and it is reasonable to feel hopeless. However, our actions at both individual and policy-levels can help address these challenges – and one of the most powerful, yet underappreciated, ways we can take action is by engaging our social networks in dialogue.

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This is why a group of environmental social scientists and I have created a “how-to” guide for talking to friends and family about the environment, drawing on our research and combined experience of campaigning for change.