Mentioning climate change can kill a conversation. But a new Alberta project is using the topic to start one -- and is showing people from geologists to farmers to environmentalists that they have more in common than they thought.
"Climate change has become quite a polarized issue and it often falls down the line of identity," said Amber Bennett of Climate Outreach, one of the organizers of the Alberta Narratives Project, which released its final report this month.
"Alberta is a different beast," said organizer Julia-Maria Becker of the energy think-tank Pembina Institute. Or they get defensive. Oilpatch workers, Becker said, often take personally suggestions their industry is "dirty."
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