(Blog Post) Organisers of a youth rally told me earlier this year that climate change was the activist issue for their generation and that young people would turn out to protest in record numbers. When hundreds of young people showed up on the anointed day I thought - where are the rest? If this is the issue, where is the mass demonstration of dissent? Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Politicians may be under-estimating the problem, because short-term big business energy interests are threatening to cut off campaign contributions. Publicly financed elections may help climate change awareness by enabling politicians to speak about it.
Maybe it also means we’re less able to focus on long-term sustainability because we’re too busy shopping. More »
Though a blog, this is a well constructed and supported story. With the sole exception of the author's implication that psychology is distinct from political and economic leadership, the inaccessibility of science communications, aggressive vested opposition interests and "extremist greenies". Each and all of these elements contain and respond to psychological components. The report of the American Psychological Association is not the whole of psychology or even all that psychology has to contribute to the issue. On the whole, this was a good and honest overview of the issues and problems faced by those concerned about the public response to climate change concerns.
This article is for the consumption of true believers in global warming. The man in the street has more skepticism than elites and somehow the man in the street seems to know more than the elites who are easily duped by junk science. The IPCC reports do not support the IPCC summary for policy makers and in turn the propaganda of the IPCC is greatly amplified by the likes of greenpeace or the Sierra Club.
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