{"id":348,"date":"2022-09-18T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T11:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:58:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:58:57","slug":"5-4-overcoming-climate-apathy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/endnotes\/what-we-must-do-now\/5-4-overcoming-climate-apathy\/","title":{"rendered":"5.4 Overcoming Climate Apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Per Espen Stoknes<\/a><\/p>\n

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    \n\u2018This is bad\u2019<\/q> Rich, N., \u2018Losing Earth: the decade we almost stopped climate change\u2019<\/cite>, New York Times Magazine<\/span>, 1 August 2018, <\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nthe \u2018Five Ds\u2019 of psychological defence<\/q> Stoknes, P. E., \u2018How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action\u2019<\/cite>,, TED Talk, 2017, https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/per_espen_stoknes_how_to_transform_apocalypse_fatigue_into_action_on_global_warming?language=en<\/a>; Stoknes, P. E., What We Think about When We Try Not to Think about Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action<\/span> (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2015), 81\u20134.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \n\u2018People are needed along a vast front\u2019<\/q> Naess, A., \u2018Deep Ecology of Wisdom\u2019<\/cite>, in The Selected Works of Arne Naess<\/span>, ed. H. Glasser et al. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005), vol. 10, 86\u20137.\n<\/p>\n

    \nWe need people in finance and administration<\/q> Stoknes, P. E., Tomorrow\u2019s Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth<\/span><\/cite> (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021).\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \nthree quarters of people are deeply concerned<\/q> Watts, J., \u2018Humans \u201cpushing Earth close to tipping point\u201d, say most in G20\u2019<\/cite>, Guardian<\/span>, 16 August 2021, https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/aug\/16\/three-quarters-g20-earth-close-to-tipping-point-global-survey-climate-crisis<\/a>. See also Leiserowitz, A., et al., International Public Opinion on Climate Change<\/span>, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, 28 June 2021, https:\/\/climatecommunication.yale.edu\/publications\/international-public-opinion-on-climate-change\/<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \n\u2018By interacting with extreme misery\u2019<\/q> Naess, A., \u2018A Place of Joy in a World of Fact\u2019<\/span><\/cite> (1973), from There Is No Point of No Return<\/span> (London: Penguin, 2021), 57.<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

    \nthere are good reasons, too, to feel deep joy, enthusiasm and gratitude<\/q> A good rule of thumb for climate communications is to share three innovative opportunities or actions for each threat or risk. This so-called \u2018positivity ratio\u2019 results in greater engagement and creativity. It allows the mental energy which is bound up in fear and worry to find a healthy outlet, moving people towards opportunity and action.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Per Espen Stoknes All online sources accessed on 1 March 2022 \u2018This is bad\u2019 Rich, N., \u2018Losing Earth: the decade we almost stopped climate change\u2019, New York Times Magazine, 1 August 2018, . the \u2018Five Ds\u2019 of psychological defence Stoknes, P. E., \u2018How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action\u2019,, TED Talk, 2017, https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/per_espen_stoknes_how_to_transform_apocalypse_fatigue_into_action_on_global_warming?language=en; Stoknes, P.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":150,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-essay.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}