The Psychology of Climate Change (The Psychology of Everything)

What explains our attitudes towards the environment? Why do so many climate change initiatives fail? How can we do more to prevent humans damaging the environment?

The Psychology of Climate Change explores the evidence for our changing environment, and suggests that there are significant cognitive biases in how we think about, and act on climate change. The authors examine how organisations have attempted to mobilise the public in the fight against climate change, but these initiatives have often failed due to the public’s unwillingness to adapt their behaviour. The book also explores why some people deny climate change altogether, and the influence that these climate change deniers can have on global action to mitigate further damage.

By analysing our attitudes to the environment, The Psychology of Climate Change argues that we must think differently about climate change to protect our planet, as a matter of great urgency.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: The science and politics of climate change 

2. The great climate change ‘debate’, and why this has been so damaging   

3. Cognitive biases in our thinking about climate change.  

4. Climate change initiatives, and why they failed.   

5. Assessing our real attitudes to climate change.   

6. How might we change underlying implicit attitudes?   7. Future challenges