Public Awareness: What Climate Change Scientists Should Consider
In this Opinion, the importance of public awareness to design solutions to mitigate climate change issues is highlighted. A large-scale acknowledgment of the climate change consequences has great potential to build social momentum. Momentum, in turn, builds motivation and demand, which can be levera...
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| author | Rahimi, Mohammad |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering |
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| description | In this Opinion, the importance of public awareness to design solutions to mitigate climate change issues is highlighted. A large-scale acknowledgment of the climate change consequences has great potential to build social momentum. Momentum, in turn, builds motivation and demand, which can be leveraged to develop a multi-scale strategy to tackle the issue. The pursuit of public awareness is a valuable addition to the scientific approach to addressing climate change issues. The Opinion is concluded by providing strategies on how to effectively raise public awareness on climate change-related topics through an integrated, well-connected network of mavens (e.g., scientists) and connectors (e.g., social media influencers). |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1283542022-09-27T20:47:15Z Public Awareness: What Climate Change Scientists Should Consider Rahimi, Mohammad Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering In this Opinion, the importance of public awareness to design solutions to mitigate climate change issues is highlighted. A large-scale acknowledgment of the climate change consequences has great potential to build social momentum. Momentum, in turn, builds motivation and demand, which can be leveraged to develop a multi-scale strategy to tackle the issue. The pursuit of public awareness is a valuable addition to the scientific approach to addressing climate change issues. The Opinion is concluded by providing strategies on how to effectively raise public awareness on climate change-related topics through an integrated, well-connected network of mavens (e.g., scientists) and connectors (e.g., social media influencers). 2020-11-04T20:47:14Z 2020-11-04T20:47:14Z 2020-10 2020-08 2020-10-13T13:24:46Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2071-1050 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128354 Rahimi, Mohammad. "Public Awareness: What Climate Change Scientists Should Consider." Sustainability 12, 20 (October 2020): 8369 © 2020 The Author http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12208369 Sustainability Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf MDPI AG Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
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