ONLINE: From Climate Change to the Coronavirus: What we Can Learn from Public Debates About Science in the U.S.

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Courtesy Kendra Pierre-Louis

Kendra Pierre-Louis, senior climate reporter with the Gimlet/Spotify podcast "How to Save a Planet."

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation's Crossroads lecture series for October features "From Climate Change to the Coronavirus: What we Can Learn from Public Debates About Science in the U.S." Discussing this very timely topic will be Department of Life Sciences Communication professor Dietram Scheufele and Kendra Pierre-Louis, this semester's UW Science Writer in Residence, author of Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet, and currently a reporter for the podcast How to Save a Planet. Register here to receive a link to the livestream.

press release: The public conversation around COVID-19 has reinforced many of the existing dysfunctional patterns in American science and politics. The false dichotomies between economic concerns and meaningful action and the ideological and partisan divides of the COVID-19 pandemic are reminiscent of the stalemate surrounding climate change. Climate change reporter Kendra Pierre-Louis of Gimlet Media will join UW-Madison science communication professor Dietram Scheufele to discuss what previous controversies around science in the U.S. can teach us about the ongoing fight over how to address the pandemic.