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“‘Many climate scientists find the response to global warming completely
baffling,’ says Elke Weber, a Columbia University psychologist and the
chair of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change’s Public
Attitudes/Ethical Issues Working Group.”
“The truly disconcerting thing about this work is that it shows how
difficult it is to change people’s views and behaviors with factual
information.”
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AlterNet November 14, 2008
Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat
of Catastrophic Climate Change?
http://www.alternet.org/story/106982/
By Lisa Bennett
Three years ago, I became obsessed with global
warming. Practically overnight, my worries about
its potential effects outstripped my worries
about so many other national and global issues,
even personal ones.
Indeed, as the mother of two young boys, I began
to think it a bit crazy that I attended to every
bump and scrape on my children’s little bodies
and budding egos, but largely ignored the threat
likely to put sizeable areas of the world,
including parts of the coastal city where we
live, underwater within their lifetime.