Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate ChangeBloomsbury Publishing USA, 19 août 2014 - 272 pages An Esquire Essential Book on Climate Change From the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change? “Please read this book, and think about it.” --Bill Nye 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 discovered 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 blindspots, 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. Rather, it is one we can halt if we can make it our common purpose and common ground. Silence and inaction are the most persuasive of narratives, so we need to change the story. 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. |
Table des matières
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You Never Get to See the Whole Picture | 17 |
The Jury of Our Peers | 26 |
The Power of the Mob 333 | 33 |
Inside the Elephant | 39 |
The Two Brains | 46 |
Familiar Yet Unimaginable | 52 |
Cockroach Tours | 99 |
Communicator Trust | 116 |
Polarization | 135 |
Winning the Argument | 150 |
Precedents and Presidents | 162 |
The Black Gooey Stuff | 175 |
The Power of One | 192 |
Intimations of Mortality | 205 |
Them There and Then | 59 |
Costing the Earth | 65 |
Dont Even Talk About It | 81 |
Why We Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change | 226 |
Why This Book Is Important | 239 |
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