Mudanças climáticas : dinâmicas de uma oficina sobre evidências e negacionismo

Abstract

After surviving the denialism promoted by Bolsonaro government during Covid-19 pandemic, climate denialism remains a severe problem. Although not a new issue, in the era of post-truth, where groups with economic and political interests vie for authority over science, it is not easy to see this denialism. In order to address this problem, this Final Paper presents a science communication product in the form of a workshop focused on climate change. The workshop aims to help high school students learn to identify climate denialism and denialist stances from political actors in various scenarios. In order to achieve this goal, the workshop focuses on two critical aspects of science: (1) the commitment to empirical evidence, which makes it justified knowledge, and (2) the view of science as a collective knowledge construction, which allows for the differentiation between dissenting voices and scientific consensus (when applicable). The workshop also discusses the basic concept of denialism and its main action strategies with participants.