{"id":58625,"date":"2021-07-16T07:17:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58625"},"modified":"2021-07-16T07:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:17:17","slug":"the-climate-crisis-interview-with-social-psychologist-kelly-fielding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58625","title":{"rendered":"The Climate Crisis: Interview with Social Psychologist Kelly Fielding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Climate Crisis: Interview with Social Psychologist Kelly Fielding<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kelly Fielding is a social and environmental psychologist and Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research has included a focus on trying to\u00a0<\/i>understand climate change beliefs and identifying ways to address climate change skepticism and inaction. The interview took place 7 July, 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n

AA: What are your thoughts and feelings about the climate crisis?<\/strong><\/p>\n

KF: I feel a lot of despair. Part of me thinks I\u2019m not supposed to feel that, because I have PhD students working in this area, for example I\u2019ve got a PhD student working on eco-anxiety. Probably like most people who work in this space and really care about this issue, I experience a range of feelings. Those range from, yes we will make it happen to wanting to throw up my hands in the air. A lot of the research on emotions and climate change has focused on the role of hope and the role of fear, and anger and despair and frustration. I feel all of these things in relation to climate change. You know, one of my PhD students did a meta-analysis of all the recent media articles on eco-anxiety. It was interesting that the media articles mainly focus on children and young people. I think that\u2019s because, as an adult, you\u2019re probably better at compartmentalizing. You say to yourself, there is a scary thing over here, climate change, but meanwhile I need to get on with these other things.<\/p>\n

AA: You have done much to characterize the underlying attitudes, vested interests and ideologies that relate to skepticism about human-caused climate change. Is that work complete, or is there more to understand?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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