Is Climate Denial Destroying Our Planet?

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🗓️ 30 July 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Climate denial has become both a psychological and a political problem. Can better communication help us expand common ground and move on to solutions? Renee Lertzman, Climate Engagement Strategist, Author and Speaker Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology, Penn State University Cristine Russell, Freelance Science Journalist Tom Toles, Editorial Cartoonist, The Washington Post This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on December 12, 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.2	Climate change believers and deniers alike find it hard to understand how others can think
0:42.8	differently.
0:43.8	But according to psychologist Renee Lertzman, we humans have an amazing capacity to stretch
0:49.2	our minds to accommodate our own beliefs.
0:51.7	When we're confronted with information that brings up conflict with our beliefs, our worldview,
0:59.0	our ideology, whatever, our mind will actually generate incredible strategies to deny, repress,
1:05.0	and basically avoid the reality.
1:08.0	But climate avoidance is more than just a psychological problem.
1:11.4	You've got to solve the psychological problem to solve the political problem,
1:15.2	but the political problem has just left way ahead of the psychology here,
1:19.8	and we are now in a horrible place.
1:24.0	Is climate denial destroying our planet?
1:26.7	Up next on Climate One. Do you believe in climate denial?
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