Using Stories to Fight Climate Denial
As an artist, Mosse’s work tells some of this story. He said these stories about the loss of the rainforests are critical to creating meaningful change and challenge climate denial narratives, which are the de facto position of the Republican party in the U.S. as well as an increasing number of right wing governments like Bolsonaro’s abroad. Even politicians putting forward climate plans still aren’t pursuing them with enough ambition to make a dent in global greenhouse gas pollution.
“We must begin to convey these narratives more powerfully—to challenge climate denialism, apathy and inaction in more compelling, urgent and impactful ways—to make people feel something,” Mosse said. “Because that’s our power, as artists and as storytellers: we have the ability to make people feel things in new and original ways.”
