Research has shown that framing climate change as a danger to public health increased people’s support for taking action on emissions and made them feel more hopeful. People have deep anxieties about a poisoned environment: The pollution of rivers, oceans, and lakes has consistently numbered among Americans’ top 10 fears, whereas climate change didn’t make the cut in the most recent survey.
And so this perfectly fits that definition.” To describe greenhouse gas emissions, Hassol likes the phrase “heat-trapping pollution,” since people don’t need special background knowledge to comprehend it. “People understand intuitively what pollution means-it’s something that’s harmful that you’re introducing unnaturally into the environment. “Warm water isn’t a bad thing either, but if you’re dumping warm water from an industrial cooling tower, it’ll kill the fish and it’s not allowed,” she said. To people who are skeptical that carbon dioxide could be considered pollution-after all, it’s natural! We breathe it out!-Hassol would point out that we use pollution to describe all kinds of disturbances, such as glowing cities (light pollution) and roaring airplanes (noise pollution).
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