ABSTRACT
Faced with a vast number of arguments, facts and dimensions of climate change, we will find it helpful to group them or sequence them in ways that are meaningful in a quest to understand various elements of the global debate. As researchers have shown, our minds are not good at holding many unrelated pieces of data in memory. However, we are good at holding multiple bits of knowledge in chunks. We can, for instance, create higher-level categories and ‘chunk’ material into them. I might not be able to remember a list of randomized objects, but I can remember three items each in the categories ‘animals’, ‘vegetables’ and ‘minerals’. Another way to make connections among a large number of items is to tell a story that includes all of them.
