{"id":9896,"date":"2015-07-10T06:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9896"},"modified":"2015-07-10T06:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:53:53","slug":"how-can-we-make-people-care-about-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9896","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Make People Care About Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/how_can_we_make_people_care_about_climate_change\/2892\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Can We Make People\u00a0Care About Climate Change?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"dek\"><strong><em>Norwegian psychologist Per Espen Stoknes has studied why so many people have remained unconcerned about climate change. In a Yale Environment 360 interview, he talks about the psychological barriers to public action on climate and how to overcome them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/>\nPer Espen Stoknes, a Norwegian psychologist and economist, has been doing a lot of thinking about a question that has bedeviled climate scientists for years: Why have humans so far failed to deal with the looming threat posed by climate change?<\/p>\n<p>That question is the focus of his recent book,\u00a0<em>What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming<\/em>, in which he analyzes what he calls the five psychological barriers that have made it difficult to deal realistically with the climate crisis. Those include: the distant nature of the problem (it\u2019s far off in time and often in other parts of the globe); the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">doom-and-gloom scenarios about the impacts of climate change, which make people feel powerless to do anything about it; and the psychological defenses that people have to avoid feeling guilty about their own contributions to fossil fuel emissions.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<em>Yale Environment 360<\/em>, Stoknes \u2014 who co-founded three clean energy companies and helps\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stoknesdotcom.wordpress.com\/cv-forenklet-test\/\" target=\"_blank\">lead the BI Center for Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 talks about these barriers and about how the discussion of climate change needs to be reframed. \u201cWe need a new kind of stories,\u201d he says, \u201cstories that tell us that nature is resilient and can rebound and get back to a healthier state, if we give it a chance to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yale Environment 360:<\/strong>\u00a0Scientists and journalists have been warning us for years about climate change. But you say the message is not getting across. Why not?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Can We Make People\u00a0Care About Climate Change? Norwegian psychologist Per Espen Stoknes has studied why so many people have remained unconcerned about climate change. In a Yale Environment 360 interview, he talks about the psychological barriers to public action on climate and how to overcome them. Per Espen Stoknes, a Norwegian psychologist and economist, [&hellip;]<\/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":[141,7162,7165,7164,658,7163],"class_list":["post-9896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-per-espen-stoknes","tag-powerlessness","tag-psychological-barriers","tag-psychology","tag-yale-environment-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896","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=9896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9897,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9896\/revisions\/9897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}