{"id":156296,"date":"2019-11-22T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?p=156296"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:20:06","slug":"climate-change-remix","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2019\/climate-change-remix\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Town Road\u2014The Climate Change Remix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">November 22, 2019<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-156296-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2019\/11\/Climate-Kids_Old-Town-Road_The-Climate-Change-Remix_LJB1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/sph\/files\/2019\/11\/Climate-Kids_Old-Town-Road_The-Climate-Change-Remix_LJB1.mp4\">\/sph\/files\/2019\/11\/Climate-Kids_Old-Town-Road_The-Climate-Change-Remix_LJB1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the scientific community is in unprecedented consensus about the dangers of the climate crisis and the urgent need for solutions, the consensus of the general public remains significantly weaker. As scientists, this is partly our fault, because we don\u2019t always communicate well with those outside our fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lilnasx\/status\/1137502076131565568?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2019\/11\/Old-Town-Road-Climate-Change-Remix-400x241.png\" alt=\"Tweet by @LilNasX: when i said \u201ci got the horses in the back\u201d it was in reference to reversing the ongoing climate change, water pollution, and catastrophic political climate we are witnessing in these trying times.\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignright wp-image-156464 size-full\" \/><\/a>At the Boston University School of Public Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/about\/departments\/environmental-health\/\">Department of Environmental Health<\/a>, we\u2019re developing scientific communication tools to help people from all walks of life understand the urgency of the climate crisis and the importance of developing (and fighting for) solutions. We know that scientific communication is about meeting people where they are.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, everyone\u2019s been with Lil Nas X on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w2Ov5jzm3j8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Old Town Road.<\/a>\u201d Share this song with all your friends and follow along <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/buspheh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@busphEH<\/a> <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClimateKids?src=hashtag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ClimateKids<\/a> for our next Mic Drop.<\/p>\n<p>And remember\u2026<br \/>\nEveryone can do somethin\u2019<br \/>\nJust try to emit nothin\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Lindsey Butler is a doctoral candidate\u00a0in the Department of Environmental Health.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about the background image <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShowYourStripes?src=hashtag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ShowYourStripes<\/a>: <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/showyourstripes.info\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">showyourstripes.info<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joe Renner\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/74ZBQBeD3gE2yIQZJ7Db9E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest album<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Find the remix <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/lindsey-butler-727109138\/old-town-road-the-climate-change-remix\/s-Swt7w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Soundcloud<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went and harmed our Earth by burning coal, and now we just can&#8217;t no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7185,"featured_media":156464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[2366,2569,2231,2143,2536,2045],"bu-publication":[3516],"sphnews-article-category":[3519,3529,3531,3541],"sphnews-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"profile_tax":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/156296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156296"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/156296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172972,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/156296\/revisions\/172972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156296"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=156296"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-article-category?post=156296"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-topic?post=156296"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=156296"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=156296"},{"taxonomy":"profile_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_tax?post=156296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}