Climate Courage Quotes

“need to cultivate different values—values that place a greater emphasis on community and less on consumption—”
― Andreas Karelas, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide

“advise us to search for “bright spots—successful efforts worth emulating.”37 This process, known as “appreciative inquiry,” suggests we ask what’s working instead of what’s not working. Instead of focusing on the latest scientific report that says things are worse than ever, we might tell the story of renewable energy being deployed at breakneck speed around the globe. And”
― Andreas Karelas, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide

“In his book The Power of Habit, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Charles Duhigg tells the story of Tom, who had struggled with losing weight. It was when he started looking at the progress he was making that his emotional brain was able to believe success was possible: “When I saw those first few pounds disappear, there was this immediate sense of excitement like, wow, I’m really doing something. It made it easier to believe this would work, that I could actually succeed at losing weight.”32”
― Andreas Karelas, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide

“What about solving climate change stirs you emotionally? Can you put it into words? Can you communicate it in a way that might resonate with someone whose politics are different from yours? Something that speaks to what they really care about at an emotional level? Learning how to do that is one of the biggest opportunities we have to create change.”
― Andreas Karelas, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide

“Daniel Kahneman puts it another way, writing that if this concept was made into a movie, “System 2 would be a supporting character who believes herself to be the hero.”22 In other words, our Rider thinks they’re the one making things happen, when more often they’re just along for the ride.”
― Andreas Karelas, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide

“As Chip and Dan Heath, business researchers and the authors of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, point out, “For individuals’ behavior to change, you’ve got to influence not only their environment but their hearts and minds. The problem is this: Often the heart and mind disagree. Fervently.”16”
― Andreas Karelas, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide

“Often, people are more willing to listen to the opinions of others when they feel that their own views have been acknowledged.”
― Andreas Karelas, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide

“Of course, the real driver behind the politicization of climate change was not Al Gore but the covert efforts of the fossil fuel industry, wielding money and power to misinform and sow doubt in the minds of Americans,”
― Andreas Karelas, Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide