Stand-up Tragedy: A Live Debate with a Climate Sceptic – Don't Teach, Let Them Learn!

You may know this situation from a family dinner, a comment thread or a meeting. Someone says “CO₂ is good, it’s plant food”, you reply with facts, and the conversation goes nowhere. This session asks why that happens and what works better. The most important change relating to climate change is in the mind of climate skeptics - yet most of us have experienced debates where both parties leave with even more fixed opinions. Is mind-changing debate possible at all? How to frame our goal in the debate - should we talk more or ask more? Or listen more? Should we win, or trigger deep thinking? How to elicit the slow and effortful learning process in a spontaneous dialogue in a coffee corner? Actually - the best-kept secret of learning is not the question, how to change people's mind, but how to make them change their minds themselves. The complex and evidence-based set of techniques for doing that will be revealed through standup-tragedy - first ever in the Estonian pavilion! Come to see us fail! Or not. Climate sceptics and young climate activists meet on stage in short, unscripted debates. You can step in and join either side of the debate. No winner is announced. Instead, we look at technique - what worked, what did not and why. You leave with a simple conversation scheme and at least one technique to try next time.