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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 (Environmentalist), author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.
  ©2014
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QC903 .M368 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Climatic changes--Psychological aspects.
  Global warming--Psychological aspects.
  Denial (Psychology)
  Rationalization (Psychology)
  Perception.
  Human ecology--Study and teaching.
  Climatic changes--Public opinion.
  Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
  Climatic changes--Social aspects.
  Human ecology.
  Global warming--Social aspects.
  
• Description:260 pages ; 21 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:163286102X
  9781632861023 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Questions
  We'll deal with that lofty stuff some other day : why disaster victims do not want to talk about climate change
  Speaking as a layman : why we think that extreme weather shows we were right all along
  You never get to see the whole picture : how the Tea Party fails to notice the greatest threat to its values
  Polluting the message : how science becomes infected with social meaning
  The jury of our peers : how we follow the people around us
  The power of the mob : how bullies hide in the crowd
  Through a glass darkly : the strange mirror world of climate deniers
  Inside the elephant : why we keep searching for enemies
  The two brains : why we are so poorly evolved to deal with climate change
  Familiar yet unimaginable : why climate change does not feel dangerous
  Uncertain long-term costs : how our cognitive biases line up against climate change
  Them, there, and then : how we push climate change far away
  Costing the earth : why we want to gain the whole world yet lose our lives
  Certain about the uncertainty : how we use uncertainty as a justification for inaction
  Paddling in the pool of worry : how we choose what to ignore
  Don't even talk about it! : the invisible force field of climate silence
  The non-perfect non-storm : why we think that climate change is impossibly difficult
  Cockroach tours : how museums struggle to tell the climate story
  Tell me a story : why lies can be so appealing
  Powerful words : how the words we use affect the way we feel
  Communicator trust : why the messenger is more important than the message
  If they don't understand the theory, talk about it over and over and over again : why climate science does not move people
  Protect, ban, save, and stop : how climate change became environmentalist
  Polarization : why polar bears make it harder to accept climate change
  Turn off your lights or the puppy gets it : how doomsday becomes dullsville
  Bright-siding : the dangers of positive dreams
  Winning the argument : how a scientific discourse turned into a debating slam
  Two billion bystanders : how Live Earth tried and failed to build a movement
  Postcard from Hopenhagen : how climate negotiations keep preparing for the drama yet to come
  Precedents and presidents : how climate policy lost the plot
  Wellhead and tailpipe : why we keep fueling the fire we want to put out
  The black gooey stuff : why oil companies await our permission to go out of business
  Moral imperatives : how we diffuse responsibility for climate change
  What did you do in the great climate war, Daddy? : why we don't really care what our children think
  The power of one : how climate change became your fault
  Degrees of separation : how the climate experts cope with what they know
  Intimations of mortality : why the future goes dark
  From the head to the heart : the phony division between science and religion
  Climate conviction : what the green team can learn from the God squad
  Why we are wired to ignore climate change
  and why we are wired to take action
  In a nutshell : some personal and highly biased ideas for digging our way out of this hole.