You don’t need to have a Ph.D. to talk about why we need clean air and climate action. You don’t need to have a mastery of facts & figures.
In fact, you’re your own target audience. You need to be able to talk about it in a way that people who don’t know facts & figures either can understand. Don’t worry about framing the issue or dazzling with statistics – tell a story.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) had the quote of the year back in January, summing up the fight against polluter-funded GOP attacks on the Clean Air Act: “There is a case to be made that, in the contest between corporate profits and children’s lungs, someone should be standing up for children’s lungs.” Last week on the Senate floor, Sen. Whitehouse expanded on the case with a series of simple yet vivid examples.
If you don’t have time to watch the clip, check out the full transcript at ClimateProgress.org.
Cross-posted from The Green Miles
