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-write a paper highlighting your most significant takeaways related to environmental communication and sustainability from these notes from a speaker
- Rosanna Xia is an environmental journalist for the New York and LA Times. She covers the topics that are specifically on the coast and ocean. This presentation was specifically about her new book "California Against the Sea" which delves into the issue of rising sea levels and its environmental and social aspect for California's coast. I attended her speaker conference where she talked about rising sea levels in california and her new book. Below is the notes I took. I need a 2-3 page paper writing about the speaker conference.
Rosanna Xia- Lessons on Climate Change Storytelling
She does environmental journalism for the New York Times and LA Times
She covers specifically the coast and ocean
Every reporter gets a different section to write about about the environment
Sea level rise is not an engineering problem- its a social problem
We have made permanent things on a changing coastline- coastline always changes, sea level rise, coastline, but we made PCH and railroads that are permanent.
Her whole career she focused on the intellectual, logical journey- facts and information, not the philosophy journey of the reader. So she needed to edit ehr book and add in some more philosophy and to have people think more expansively.
What worked to do this above?- Empathy- listen to people. Relatable characters, specific (relatable details), bring people out of their corners, connect the dots bridge the silos, create a roadmap forward.
Don't write big- write smaller about bigger issues. Get into the details- it will evoke more emotion through the reader and be PREC?SE.
You dont have to make villains in your stories.especially about climate change don't point fingers.
In climate change stories, she would plant easter eggs in the story (hope and solutions) (call to actions).
Recalibrating Expertise
Climate in hollywood is barely discussed only 0.6% of scripted tv and films since 2016-2020 (studied releases) mentioned climate change and certain terms.
Hope?- you can't give too much or too little hope. Does the person reading feel a sense of duty, belonging, responsibility to this issue?