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How writing about places people know makes the climate crisis less abstract

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By Sam Illingworth, Barbara Barrow, Ellen Turner, Lisa Lock
| Phys.org Verified
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The discourse around climate change can lead to anxiety, detachment or resignation because it often stretches language in ways that make the world feel distant. Global averages and abstract temperature thresholds make it harder for people to relate to climate change in their own specific location. And while the language of sustainable development appeals to rationality, it fails to engage people creatively and collectively.
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How writing about places people know makes the climate crisis less abstract

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By Sam Illingworth, Barbara Barrow, Ellen Jean Turner
| The Conversation Verified
The discourse around climate change can lead to anxiety, detachment or resignation because it often stretches language in ways that make the world feel distant. Global averages and abstract temperature thresholds make it harder for people to relate to climate change in their own specific location. And while the language of sustainable development appeals to rationality, it fails to engage people creatively and collectively.
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Noir by Women, Not Just Femme Fatales

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By Tayari Jones, Mary Kay McBrayer, Barbara Barrow
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This list of noir by women is sponsored by Sourcebooks. Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common—they didn’t have an ending. The killer was still out there. But after the sudden death of a friend, crime writer and author of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara, Billy got fed up. Following a dark night, he came up with a plan.
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