{"id":7920,"date":"2014-12-11T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T19:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=7920"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:13:13","slug":"the-psychology-behind-our-failure-to-act-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/the-psychology-behind-our-failure-to-act-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The psychology behind our failure to act on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Mooney writing for the Washington Post has an article on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/12\/11\/the-7-psychological-reasons-that-are-stopping-us-from-acting-on-climate-change\/\">The 7 psychological reasons that are stopping us from acting on climate change<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a gigantic threat is staring you in the face, and you can&#8217;t act upon it, it&#8217;s safe to assume there&#8217;s some sort of mental blockage happening. So what&#8217;s the hangup? That&#8217;s what a new report from ecoAmerica and the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University&#8217;s Earth Institute &#8212; entitled Connecting on Climate: A Guide to Effective Climate Change Communication &#8212; seeks to help us better understand.<\/p>\n<p>The report is framed around communicating about climate change effectively &#8212; but read more closely and you&#8217;ll quickly see that the reason we need help here to begin with is that humans have some pesky attributes, ones that render us pretty poor at grappling with slow-moving, long-range, collective problems like climate change. So which traits are we talking about? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/12\/11\/the-7-psychological-reasons-that-are-stopping-us-from-acting-on-climate-change\/\">Read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Mooney writing for the Washington Post has an article on &#8220;The 7 psychological reasons that are stopping us from acting on climate change&#8221; He notes: When a gigantic threat is staring you in the face, and you can&#8217;t act upon it, it&#8217;s safe to assume there&#8217;s some sort of mental blockage happening. So what&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/the-psychology-behind-our-failure-to-act-on-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The psychology behind our failure to act on climate change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5021,1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-23K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7921,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions\/7921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}