I’m Right and You’re an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up
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FEATURING JAMES HOGGAN – Our presidential election politics have demonstrated one thing most clearly – that Americans live in a polarized country and that increasingly we dig our heels in and embrace our positions like they are religious beliefs. Our civic discourse has become toxic. And in turn, we have made very little progress on multiple existential crises such as climate change.
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James Hoggan is president of the PR firm Hoggan & Associates, chair of the David Suzuki Foundation board, and founder of the influential website DeSmogBlog. He has also served as a member of Shell Global’s External Review Committee and is author of ‘Climate Cover-Up and Do the Right Thing’. His new book is called ‘I’m Right and You’re an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up’.