Don't even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change, George Marshall

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Don't even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change, George Marshall

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why our brains are wired to ignore climate change

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George Marshall

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• Don't even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change

Publication

• New York, NY, Bloomsbury USA, 2014

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• ©2014

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index

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Contents

Questions -- We'll deal with that lofty stuff some other day: Why disaster victims do not want to talk about climate change -- Speaking as a layman: Why we think that extreme weather shows we were right all along -- You never get to see the whole picture: How the Tea Party fails to notice the greatest threat to its values -- Polluting the message: how science becomes infected with social meaning -- The jury of our peers: How we follow the people around us -- The power of the mob: How bullies hide in the crowd -- Through a glass darkly: the strange mirror world of climate deniers -- Inside the elephant: Why we keep searching for enemies -- The two brains: Why we are so poorly evolved to deal with climate change -- Familiar yet unimaginable: Why climate change does not feel dangerous -- Uncertain long-term costs: How our cognitive biases line up against climate change -- Them, there, and then: How we push climate change far away -- Costing the earth: Why we want to gain the whole world yet lose our lives -- Certain about the uncertainty: How we use uncertainty as a justification for inaction -- Paddling in the pool of worry: How we choose what to ignore -- Don't even talk about it!: The invisible force field of climate silence -- The non-perfect non-storm: Why we think that climate change is impossibly difficult -- Cockroach tours: How museums struggle to tell the climate story -- Tell me a story: Why lies can be so appealing -- Powerful words: How the words we use affect the way we feel -- Communicator trust: Why the messenger is more important than the message -- If they don't understand the theory, talk about it over and over and over again: Why climate science does not move people -- Protect, ban, save, and stop: how climate change became environmentalist -- Polarization : why polar bears make it harder to accept climate change -- Turn off your lights or the puppy gets it: How doomsday becomes dullsville -- Bright-siding: The dangers of positive dreams -- Winning the argument: How a scientific discourse turned into a debating slam -- Two billion bystanders: How Live Earth tried and failed to build a movement -- Postcard from Hopenhagen: How climate negotiations keep preparing for the drama yet to come -- Precedents and presidents: How climate policy lost the plot -- Wellhead and tailpipe: Why we keep fueling the fire we want to put out -- The black gooey stuff: Why oil companies await our permission to go out of business -- Moral imperatives: How we diffuse responsibility for climate change -- What did you do in the great climate war, Daddy?: Why we don't really care what our children think -- The power of one: How climate change became your fault -- Degrees of separation: How the climate experts cope with what they know -- Intimations of mortality: Why the future goes dark -- From the head to the heart: The phony division between science and religion -- Climate conviction: What the green team can learn from the God squad -- Why we are wired to ignore climate change...and why we are wired to take action -- In a nutshell: Some personal and highly biased ideas for digging our way out of this hole -- Four degrees: Why this book is important

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ocn885302594

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25 cm

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First U.S. edition.

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260 pages

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9781620401330

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