We Need a Victory Story: Mobilising the Silent Majority with Liam Kavanagh of the Climate Majority Project
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The episode discusses mobilizing the silent majority for climate action with guest Liam Kavanagh.
If you listen to this podcast then you care about people and planet and how we make it through this potential crunch point when all our crises mash together. But what if you knew you were not alone? What if you knew that almost everyone in our culture cares about this, they just don't know what to do about it? They don't have what this week's guest, Dr Liam Kavanagh, calls the 'Victory Stories' to show how we made it through. Liam is a founding Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project, an organisation that has worked since 2022 to extend climate action beyond the vocal minority of activists to the concerned but quiet majority. His social science background informs CMP’s theory of change and strategy. He began his career as an applied economist in New York and Tanzania. Motivated by questions about ideology and cognitive dissonance in political economy, he completed a PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. In 2016, he co-founded Life Itself, a European polycrisis-response network ( we spoke to Sylvie Barbier from Life Itself a few weeks ago ), and has authored two books and numerous reports. His latest reports: Mobilising Silent Majorities is one…
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