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• Title:Don't even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change / George Marshall.
  
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• Variant Title:Do not even think about it
  
• Author/Creator:Marshall, George, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
  ©2014
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at WOODWARD LIBRARY reserve collectionWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QC903 .M368 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Climatic changes--Popular works.
  Global warming.
  Human ecology--Study and teaching.
  
• Edition:First U.S. edition.
  
• Description:260 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"Most of us recognize that climate change is real, and yet we do nothing to stop it. What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshall's search for the answers brings him face-to-face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and the activists of the Texas Tea Party; the world's leading climate scientists and the people who denounce them; liberal environmentalists and conservative evangelicals. What he discovers is that our values, assumptions, and prejudices can take on lives of their own, gaining authority as they are shared, dividing people in their wake. With engaging stories and drawing on years of his own research, Marshall argues that the answers do not lie in the things that make us different and drive us apart, but rather in what we all share: how our human brains are wired--our evolutionary origins, our perceptions of threats, our cognitive blind spots, our love of storytelling, our fear of death, and our deepest instincts to defend our family and tribe. Once we understand what excites, threatens, and motivates us, we can rethink and reimagine climate change, for it is not an impossible problem. In the end, Don't even think about it is both about climate change and about the qualities that make us human and how we can grow as we deal with the greatest challenge we have ever faced"--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781620401330
  1620401339
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Why Disaster Victims Do Not Want to Talk About Climate Change
  Why We Think That Extreme Weather Shows We Were Right All Along
  How the Tea Party Fails to Notice the Greatest Threat to Its Values
  How Science Becomes Infected with Social Meaning
  How We Follow the People Around Us
  How Bullies Hide in the Crowd
  Strange Mirror World of Climate Deniers
  Why We Keep Searching for Enemies
  Why We Are So Poorly Evolved to Deal with Climate Change
  Why Climate Change Does Not Feel Dangerous
  How Our Cognitive Biases Line Up Against Climate Change
  How We Push Climate Change Far Away
  Why We Want to Gain the Whole World Yet Lose Our Lives
  How We Use Uncertainty as a Justification for Inaction
  How We Choose What to Ignore
  Invisible Force Field of Climate Silence
  Why We Think That Climate Change Is Impossibly Difficult
  How Museums Struggle to Tell the Climate Story
  Why Lies Can Be So Appealing
  How the Words We Use Affect the Way We Feel
  Why the Messenger Is More Important than the Message
  Why Climate Science Does Not Move People
  How Climate Change Became Environmentalist
  Why Polar Bears Make It Harder to Accept Climate Change
  How Doomsday Becomes Dullsville
  Dangers of Positive Dreams
  How a Scientific Discourse Turned into a Debating Slam
  How Live Earth Tried and Failed to Build a Movement
  How Climate Negotiations Keep Preparing for the Drama Yet to Come
  How Climate Policy Lost the Plot
  Why We Keep Fueling the Fire We Want to Put Out
  Why Oil Companies Await Our Permission to Go Out of Business
  How We Diffuse Responsibility for Climate Change
  Why We Don't Really Care What Our Children Think
  How Climate Change Became Your Fault
  How the Climate Experts Cope with What They Know
  Why the Future Goes Dark
  Phony Division Between Science and Religion
  What the Green Team Can Learn from the God Squad
  Some Personal and Highly Biased Ideas for Digging Our Way Out of This Hole.