EPISODE · Feb 2, 2026 · 43 MIN
The biggest climate myth right now isn’t denial. It’s silence.
from Two Steps Forward — Sustainability Meets Business Reality · host Joel Makower and Solitaire Townsend
For all the noise surrounding climate — the backlash, the culture wars, the political theatrics — here’s an uncomfortable truth: most Americans haven’t changed their minds at all.That’s the quiet bombshell from our recent podcast conversation with Yale’s Anthony Leiserowitz, founder and director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Despite a second Trump administration openly attacking climate science and policy, despitecorporate retreat and the rise of “climate hushing,” public concern about climate change in the United States has remained remarkably stable.Which raises an obvious question: Ifthe public hasn’t moved, why has business?The answer, he told us, has less to do with ideology than imagination. Or rather, a failure of it.
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