Climate Change and Changing Communication

     The articles revolve around the changing communication tactics used to educate the public about climate change. The article "Environmental Data Justice and the Trump Administration: Reflections from the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative" discusses the actions taken by the EDGI after the disruption of environmental data and policy organizations due to the Trump administration. Due to Trump's refusal to fund federal environmental agencies led to the formation of EDGI, which formed after the United States elections in 2016 after a small group of environmental scholars became worried about Trump's threats to the funding and presentation of environmental science. EDGI is now a grown a broad network of "physical and social scientists, lawyers, librarians, data scientists, and professionals from environmental nonprofits across North America", working together on large online platforms. EDGI is primarily volunteer-based but receives grants for research projects and practices. The article "The Green Deal, explained", is about the acknowledgment of climate change by Democrats, but the reluctance to put policies in place to form an achievable solution. In response young climate justice activists proposed a plan, The Green New Deal. According to the text, the GND is the idea to build a  solar power plant, "large arrays of mirrors reflect sunlight onto a single tower, heating the fluid inside it. The fluid transfers heat to water, the steam from the boiling fluid drives turbine, and the turbine generate an electrical sustainable source of power." The idea has gained popularity on social media such as Twitter and is searched often on the Internet. The promotion of the GND has not been limited to just social media and young activists, progressive politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have voiced support and embraced the plan.
     These articles represent people making a change in means of communication and expression when things do not seem to be working out.In the article Environmental Data Justice and the Trump Administration: Reflections from the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative"  the people who cared about the public knowing the data and truth about how Climate change affected them banded together and made it possible using online platforms  even with Donald Trump’s attempt to mute environmental agencies and policy. It is disturbing that a person can used their single belief to invalidate years of research and observations and withhold the truth from the people. The organizers of the Green New Deal Plan are also an revolutionaries, they came up with a plan of their own when the people who are supposed to be their leaders failed to do anything. 




Climate Change Communication- A organization about educating, informing, warning, persuading, mobilizing and finding solutions to climate change shaped by “different experiences, mental and cultural models, and underlying values and worldviews.”

scalability- the room or ability to change in scale

EDJ- Environmental Justice Data