Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
by George Marshall
Recommended by Wolfgang Blau
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Starts with wry reportage and plain-language psychology, using stories and social‑science summaries to account for the gap between knowledge and action on climate change. Most useful as a diagnostic map of emotional, cultural, and cognitive barriers — handy for anyone who needs to frame expectations about persuasion. Limiting when you want concrete outreach scripts or hands-on tactics: the book favors diagnosis and illustrative anecdote over a toolbox, and some chapters circle back to the same examples for emphasis.
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A witty, insightful, and groundbreaking take on one of the most urgent questions of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate changeMost of us recognize that climate change is real yet we do nothing to stop it. What is the psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is...
Difficulty:hard
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Environment, Politics, and Psychology.
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Wolfgang Blau
“) and that book is great, indeed. Such a brave thing George Marshall did there, questioning his own assumptions.”
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