Compilation: Psychology of Climate Crisis Denial, Inaction, Immobilization
Glenn MacIntosh | November 25, 2010
Material posted here is the beginning of a compilation on the subjects of climate crisis psychology, denial, inaction and immobilization. The Dan Gilbert talk above is a great primer on the complex processes at work inside all of us, but we'll be adding more articles and videos as we discover them, and as YOU submit them.
Articles
- Article - Why the energy industry is so invested in denial, Bill McKibben, The Guardian
- Article - Coping with climate change is a family matter, Michael Ocana, David Suzuki Fdn
- Article - How can climate change denialism be explained? Robert Manne, The Monthly
- Article - Why libertarians must deny climate change, George Monbiot, The Guardian
- Post - How do you solve a problem like conservative white men? David Roberts, Grist
- Post - Stuff white people like: Denying climate change, David Roberts, The Grist
- Article - The science of why we don't believe science, Chris Mooney, Mother Jones
- Post - Do environmentalists need shrinks? Michelle Nijhuis, Grist
- Article - Personality not facts rules reactions to climate change, Jo Chandler, TheAge.com
- Article/book review - Kari Marie Norgaard's, Living in Denial: Why even people who believe in climate change do nothing about it, Christine Shearer, Alternet
- Article - People will judge a certain condition of the world as more likely if it fits with what they are experiencing at that moment, phsyorg.com
- Article - Cultural values influence what/whom we believe, D.Kahan, Nature
- Blog - Science-based (dire) warnings are an essential part of good climate messaging, CP
- Article - When the scientific evidence is unwelcome, people try to reason it away, Ben Goldacre, The Guardian
- Article - Climate crisis of feelings, Sanjay Khanna, Huffington Post
- Article - Belief in climate change hinges on world view, C. Joyce, NPR
- Article - Why we find it so hard to act against climate change, George Marshall, YES Magazine
Videos
- Video - Global warming and psychology, Dan Gilbert, Harvard Thinks Big 2010, (11;20)
- Video - Ingenius ways we avoid believing in climate change, George Marshall, 1 (8:45)
- Video - Ingenius ways we avoid believing in climate change, George Marshall, 2 (8:44)
- Video - Ingenius ways we avoid believing in climate change, George Marshall, 3 (10:57)
MORE
- Website - Dan Gilbert, Harvard University
- Website - ClimateChangeDenial.org, George Marshall
- Wikipedia - Climate change denial
- Wikipedia - Denialism
- Wikipedia - Confirmation bias
