{"id":3417,"date":"2014-12-22T13:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T18:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2014-12-22T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T18:41:47","slug":"what-climate-change-asks-of-us-moral-obligation-mobilization-and-crisis-communication-the-climate-psychologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3417","title":{"rendered":"What Climate Change Asks of Us: Moral Obligation, Mobilization and Crisis Communication | The Climate Psychologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Climate Change Asks of Us: Moral Obligation, Mobilization and Crisis Communication | The Climate Psychologist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Why are we morally obligated to fight climate change?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Climate change is a crisis, and crises alter morality.\u00a0<\/strong>Climate change is on track to cause the extinction of half the species on earth and, through a combination of droughts, famines, displaced people, and failed states and pandemics, the collapse of civilization within this century. If this horrific destructive force is to be abated, it will be due to the efforts of people who are currently alive. The future of humanity falls to us. This is an unprecedented moral responsibility, and we are by and large failing to meet it.<\/p>\n

Indeed, most of us act as though we are not morally obligated to fight climate change, and those whodo<\/em>\u00a0recognize their obligation are largely confused about how to meet it<\/p>\n

Crises alter morality; they alter what is demanded of us if we want to be considered good, honorable people. For example\u2014having a picnic in the park is morally neutral. But if, during your picnic, you witness a group of children drowning and you continue eating and chatting, passively ignoring the crisis, you have become monstrous. A stark, historical example of crisis morality is the Holocaust\u2014history judges those who remained passive during that fateful time. Simply being a private citizen (a \u201cGood German\u201d) is not considered honorable or morally acceptable in retrospect. Passivity, in a time of crisis, is complicity. It is a moral failure. Crises demand that we actively engage; that we rise to the challenge; that we do our best.<\/p>\n

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What Climate Change Asks of Us: Moral Obligation, Mobilization and Crisis Communication | The Climate Psychologist. \u00a0Why are we morally obligated to fight climate change? Climate change is a crisis, and crises alter morality.\u00a0Climate change is on track to cause the extinction of half the species on earth and, through a combination of droughts, famines, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2090,141,1053,150],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-civilization-collapse","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-crisis","tag-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}