How to Sell Climate Action to Your Rural Conservative Neighbors

A field guide to difficult conversations about climate outside of big cities

Michael Barnard
GEN
Published in
9 min readFeb 14, 2020

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Wind turbines near Minot, North Dakota. Photo: Ken Cedeno/Getty Images

SState Representative Tiffiny Mitchell has a challenge. She is a Democrat from Oregon’s 32nd District, a beautiful region at the mouth of the Columbia River downstream from Portland. She’s also new to statewide politics in a region…

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Michael Barnard
GEN
Writer for

Climate futurist and advisor. Founder TFIE. Advisor FLIMAX. Podcast Redefining Energy - Tech.