
Updated: Feb. 19, 2017
This is a compilation in progress of material / resources related to 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.
Selected articles, posts
- Why climate concerns don’t always line up with the evidence, CBC
- Climate change is giving us ‘pre-traumatic stress,’ D. Oberhaus, Motherboard
- Why worldview threats undermine evidence, M. Shermer, Scientific American
- Why people shut down when their political beliefs are challenged, Huffpost
- To tell someone they’re wrong, first tell them they’re right, O. Goldhill, Quartz
- Article – 7 psychological reasons that stop us from acting on climate change, WP
- Article – Climate depression is for real, just ask a scientist, M. Thomas, Grist
- Op-ed – Americans’ mental health latest victim of changing climate, LiveScience
- Post – The 6 stages of climate grief, Daphne Wysham, Common Dreams
- Article – Despair, courage, and hope in an age of environmental turmoil: This may be the most psychologically trying time in all of human history, Psychology Today
- Post+podcast – How do you get people to give a damn about climate change? Grist
- Article – Why you haven’t acted yet, Annie Hauser, Wunderground
- Post – Fear, optimism and activism: What drives change? D. Spratt, CCR
- Post – A prescription for injuries of the soul, C. Raffensperger, Common Dreams
- Article – Climate change: You can’t ignore it, Anne Karpf, The Guardian
- Post – The science of truthiness: Why conservatives deny global warming, Grist
- Post – Conservatives versus science: A new scientific validation of the Republican war on science (and Republican brain) thesis, C. Mooney, Grist
- Article – Why the energy industry is so invested in denial, B. McKibben, Guardian
- Article – Coping with climate change is a family matter, M. Ocana, DSF
- Article – How can climate change denialism be explained? R. Manne, The Monthly
- Article – Why libertarians must deny climate change, G. Monbiot, The Guardian
- Post – How do you solve a problem like conservative white men? D. Roberts, Grist
- Post – Stuff white people like: Denying climate change, D. Roberts, The Grist
- Article – The science of why we don’t believe science, C. Mooney, Mother Jones
- Post – Do environmentalists need shrinks? M. Nijhuis, Grist
- Article – Personality not facts rules reactions to climate change, TheAge.com
- Article/book review – Kari Marie Norgaard’s, Living in Denial: Why even people who believe in climate change do nothing about it, C. 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 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, YES Magazine
Videos
- Video – Global warming and psychology, D. Gilbert, Harvard 2010, (11;20)
- Video – Ingenius ways we avoid believing in climate change, G. Marshall, 1 (8:45)
- Video – Ingenius ways we avoid believing in climate change, G. Marshall, 2 (8:44)
- Video – Ingenius ways we avoid believing in climate change, G. Marshall, 3 (10:57)
Books (more to be added)
General
- Website – Dan Gilbert, Harvard University
- Website – ClimateChangeDenial.org, George Marshall
- Wikipedia – Climate change denial
- Wikipedia – Denialism
- Wikipedia – Confirmation bias
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