Beschreibung:
This book offers a psychological perspective on the current thinking on climate change, an issue of major global importance. The authors seek to demonstrate that there is a significant psychological issue connected with climate change in relation to the development of the climate change ¿debate', optimism bias, the failure of climate change initiatives, and our attitudes towards the environment.
1. Introduction: The science and politics of climate change 2. The great climate change 'debate', and why this has been so damaging 3. Cognitive biases in our thinking about climate change. 4. Climate change initiatives, and why they failed. 5. Assessing our real attitudes to climate change. 6. How might we change underlying implicit attitudes? 7. Future challenges