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Psychological Barriers to Concern about Climate Change

Why is it difficult for people to care about and act on climate change? We call these psychological barriers “dragons of inaction.”

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: Psychological Barriers to Concern about Climate Change, originally published in UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline
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