Format:
260 Seiten
Edition:
Paperback edition
ISBN:
9781632861023
Note:
First published 2014
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Questions --We'll deal with that lofty stuff some other day : why disaster victims do not want to talk about climate change --Speaking as a layman : why we think that extreme weather shows we were right all along --You never get to see the whole picture : how the Tea Party fails to notice the greatest threat to its values --Polluting the message : how science becomes infected with social meaning --The jury of our peers : how we follow the people around us --The power of the mob : how bullies hide in the crowd --Through a glass darkly : the strange mirror world of climate deniers --Inside the elephant : why we keep searching for enemies --The two brains : why we are so poorly evolved to deal with climate change --Familiar yet unimaginable : why climate change does not feel dangerous --Uncertain long-term costs : how our cognitive biases line up against climate change --Them, there, and then : how we push climate change far away --Costing the earth : why we want to gain the whole world yet lose our lives --Certain about the uncertainty : how we use uncertainty as a justification for inaction --Paddling in the pool of worry : how we choose what to ignore --Don't even talk about it! : the invisible force field of climate silence --The non-perfect non-storm : why we think that climate change is impossibly difficult --Cockroach tours : how museums struggle to tell the climate story --Tell me a story : why lies can be so appealing --Powerful words : how the words we use affect the way we feel --Communicator trust : why the messenger is more important than the message --If they don't understand the theory, talk about it over and over and over again : why climate science does not move people --Protect, ban, save, and stop : how climate change became environmentalist --Polarization : why polar bears make it harder to accept climate change --Turn off your lights or the puppy gets it : how doomsday becomes dullsville --Bright-siding : the dangers of positive dreams --Winning the argument : how a scientific discourse turned into a debating slam --Two billion bystanders : how Live Earth tried and failed to build a movement --Postcard from Hopenhagen : how climate negotiations keep preparing for the drama yet to come --Precedents and presidents : how climate policy lost the plot --Wellhead and tailpipe : why we keep fueling the fire we want to put out --The black gooey stuff : why oil companies await our permission to go out of business --Moral imperatives : how we diffuse responsibility for climate change --What did you do in the great climate war, Daddy? : why we don't really care what our children think --The power of one : how climate change became your fault --Degrees of separation : how the climate experts cope with what they know --Intimations of mortality : why the future goes dark --From the head to the heart : the phony division between science and religion --Climate conviction : what the green team can learn from the God squad --Why we are wired to ignore climate change--and why we are wired to take action --In a nutshell : some personal and highly biased ideas for digging our way out of this hole.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781620401330
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781620401347
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
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General works
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Philosophy
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Sociology
Keywords:
Klimaänderung
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Risikobewusstsein
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Soziale Wahrnehmung
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Klimatologie
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Kontroverse
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Politische Auseinandersetzung
;
Erwärmung
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Anthropogene Klimaänderung
;
Klimaänderung
;
Risikoanalyse
;
Klimaänderung
;
Umweltpolitik
;
Umweltschutz
;
Klimaschutz
;
Umweltkrise
;
Risikobewusstsein
;
Klimaänderung
;
Umweltschaden
;
Risiko
;
Soziale Wahrnehmung
URL:
http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781632861023.pdf
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