An examination of human psychology reveals why it's so hard to make a significant difference or stimulate meaningful changes while acting (like me) as a "climate alarmist." 🚨

In a recent article on Medium, T.J. Brearton explores this subject through the prism of a book he's been reading called "Generation Dread" by Britt Wray...
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People will be building homes on the coasts even as the ocean encroaches. Often cited by deniers and skeptics as proof of a hoax, the Obamas bought a home on Martha’s Vineyard just a couple of years ago.

Are the Obamas deniers? Are they using negation? Britt Wray presents a third type of psychological defense, called disavowal, “a kind of soft denial.” This is the category of people who understand the science and the risks, and, while concerned about systems collapse, simultaneously play down the threats so that they can continue living their lives according to their desires.

By the time things are so bad they’re affecting most people, we will have been hearing about climate alarm for decades. Whole swaths of the population will have completely tuned it out.

Indeed, we’re all making these decisions every day, to keep the lights on in our home, to keep gasoline in our cars so that we can get to work, take care of our immediate needs.

And we will always be this way, right up until the ocean is at our front door, or the heat is rising to surpass survivable wet-bulb temperatures, or the grocery store is suddenly bare.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/why-climate-alarmism-doesnt-work-4ccfe37d27c0

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