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George Marshall: ""Don't Even Think About It - Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change""
http://youtu.be/d2uMwK_XRNEHarvard Book Store and Cambridge Energy Alliance welcomed climate change expert and founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network George Marshall for a discussion of his book Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change.
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.
The Lecture was taped September 3, 2014.
""""""""Harvard Book Store and Cambridge Energy Alliance welcome climate change
expert and founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network
GEORGE MARSHALL for a discussion of his book Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change.
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.
"In 42 engaging, bite-size chapters, Marshall presents the psychological research demonstrating why climate change simply doesn’t feel dangerous enough to justify action and how we can trick our brains into changing our sense of urgency about the problem. His work is a much needed kick in the pants for policymakers, grassroots environmentalists, and the public to induce us to develop effective motivational tools to help us take action to face the reality of climate change before it’s too late." —Booklist
"The science of climate change is easy: burning fossil fuels creates greenhouse gasses that are warming our world. George Marshall reminds us about the hard part: connecting the wellhead to the tailpipe in people’s minds as soon as possible. Please read this book, and think about it. Let’s get to work." —Bill Nye""""""
""""Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change? And what does it need for us to become fully convinced of what we already know?
This fascinating and entertaining book is about how we think, or don't think, act, or don't act about climate change.
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. This is the product of several years thinking and research, interviewing a great many people about their feelings on climate change. George talks in one chapter of "cognitive error on a vast scale" and "flawed psychological processes".
The structure of the book is short chapters with catchy titles, making it an entertaining and easy read, as well as thought-provoking.
George argues that once we understand what excites, threatens, and motivates us, we can rethink and reimagine climate change – it is not an impossible problem, but one we can halt if we can make it our common purpose and common ground.
He believes that it was a major error in policy terms, when global warming was first discovered, to make a distinction between climate warming gases and fossil fuel extraction, because it focussed legislation on the wrong target.
Cities are one of the main theatres of action on climate change and there are many initiatives taken by mayors, such as in New York City, independently of national policy. In fact many mayors collaborate in organisations such as C40. George discusses in the interview whether action at this level is more effective than at national level.
He tackles the question of the psychological tactics we should ideally employ to mobilise action, including borrowing rhetorical devices from religious movements and adopting the conviction and the sense of community and shared purpose that goes with religious experiences – particularly evangelism.
The book contains very funny passages, such as the description of a campaigner for the conservation of swordfish eating swordfish in a restaurant when off duty. He ascribes this type of behaviour to a kind of stress release mechanism that he also finds among climate scientists who take regular flights. He says that in behaving like this they are "being the change they want to see" by acting out an imagined world in which they can both do their job and do the other things they like.
This book will provoke much-needed and essential new angles on thinking about what constitutes effective action to tackle climate change. The video contains insights not necessarily in the book.
Find out more at:
David Thorpe"""""
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.
"In 42 engaging, bite-size chapters, Marshall presents the psychological research demonstrating why climate change simply doesn’t feel dangerous enough to justify action and how we can trick our brains into changing our sense of urgency about the problem. His work is a much needed kick in the pants for policymakers, grassroots environmentalists, and the public to induce us to develop effective motivational tools to help us take action to face the reality of climate change before it’s too late." —Booklist
"The science of climate change is easy: burning fossil fuels creates greenhouse gasses that are warming our world. George Marshall reminds us about the hard part: connecting the wellhead to the tailpipe in people’s minds as soon as possible. Please read this book, and think about it. Let’s get to work." —Bill Nye""""""
""""Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change? And what does it need for us to become fully convinced of what we already know?
This fascinating and entertaining book is about how we think, or don't think, act, or don't act about climate change.
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. This is the product of several years thinking and research, interviewing a great many people about their feelings on climate change. George talks in one chapter of "cognitive error on a vast scale" and "flawed psychological processes".
The structure of the book is short chapters with catchy titles, making it an entertaining and easy read, as well as thought-provoking.
George argues that once we understand what excites, threatens, and motivates us, we can rethink and reimagine climate change – it is not an impossible problem, but one we can halt if we can make it our common purpose and common ground.
He believes that it was a major error in policy terms, when global warming was first discovered, to make a distinction between climate warming gases and fossil fuel extraction, because it focussed legislation on the wrong target.
Cities are one of the main theatres of action on climate change and there are many initiatives taken by mayors, such as in New York City, independently of national policy. In fact many mayors collaborate in organisations such as C40. George discusses in the interview whether action at this level is more effective than at national level.
He tackles the question of the psychological tactics we should ideally employ to mobilise action, including borrowing rhetorical devices from religious movements and adopting the conviction and the sense of community and shared purpose that goes with religious experiences – particularly evangelism.
The book contains very funny passages, such as the description of a campaigner for the conservation of swordfish eating swordfish in a restaurant when off duty. He ascribes this type of behaviour to a kind of stress release mechanism that he also finds among climate scientists who take regular flights. He says that in behaving like this they are "being the change they want to see" by acting out an imagined world in which they can both do their job and do the other things they like.
This book will provoke much-needed and essential new angles on thinking about what constitutes effective action to tackle climate change. The video contains insights not necessarily in the book.
Find out more at:
David Thorpe"""""
Being
at the TIPPING-POINT that these actions are having it becomes necessary
to access their impacts and once having recognized the negative affects
on the environment, the land that we are farming, the atmosphere that
we are breathing, it is critcal to recognize that WE MUST REVERSE THESE
TRENDS. Then, given the time
and place to implement actions and practices to have a cause-and-effect
impact in a positive
way, will influence implementation, and at least retard further
deterioration of our environment and our climate. On a larger scale,
reversing the trends of deterioration should always be----the ultimate
objective.
Its impact on the economy, pollution, and the focus on Climate; The Conversation---makes this worthy of continued enthusiasm and consideration
Lou Marconi (SuiteLou0819)
Its impact on the economy, pollution, and the focus on Climate; The Conversation---makes this worthy of continued enthusiasm and consideration
Lou Marconi (SuiteLou0819)
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