Sarah Jacquet‐Ray

And in fact, that is exactly what most people do when we talk about climate deniers or we talk about people who don't are unwilling to face it and how frustrated we can feel about people who don't want to face a problem. It is actually cognitively the most elegant solution.

And in fact, that is exactly what most people do when we talk about climate deniers or we talk about people who don't are unwilling to face it and how frustrated we can feel about people who don't want to face a problem. It is actually cognitively the most elegant solution.

to the dissonance that we experience and many of us experience between how terrible the problem is and then the life that we live and how it's constantly making the problems worse. That cognitive dissonance makes it very difficult to really face into what we need to do to solve it and much easier to just say, I throw my hands up.

to the dissonance that we experience and many of us experience between how terrible the problem is and then the life that we live and how it's constantly making the problems worse. That cognitive dissonance makes it very difficult to really face into what we need to do to solve it and much easier to just say, I throw my hands up.

to the dissonance that we experience and many of us experience between how terrible the problem is and then the life that we live and how it's constantly making the problems worse. That cognitive dissonance makes it very difficult to really face into what we need to do to solve it and much easier to just say, I throw my hands up.

There's no surprise at all that people feel this way and that they feel despairing about it. And I think it is a mistake to say that it's climate change that causes this stuff in people.

There's no surprise at all that people feel this way and that they feel despairing about it. And I think it is a mistake to say that it's climate change that causes this stuff in people.

There's no surprise at all that people feel this way and that they feel despairing about it. And I think it is a mistake to say that it's climate change that causes this stuff in people.

We ought to also think about the way that they're getting that information, that kind of machinery of mediation that happens between the actual problem of climate change itself and the human being receiving that information. There's a whole machine happening there. There is the way the algorithms work on social media. There's the ways that people get their information.

We ought to also think about the way that they're getting that information, that kind of machinery of mediation that happens between the actual problem of climate change itself and the human being receiving that information. There's a whole machine happening there. There is the way the algorithms work on social media. There's the ways that people get their information.

We ought to also think about the way that they're getting that information, that kind of machinery of mediation that happens between the actual problem of climate change itself and the human being receiving that information. There's a whole machine happening there. There is the way the algorithms work on social media. There's the ways that people get their information.

There's the fact that we get more media now in the last 20 years than we've ever gotten from all corners of the globe. It's overwhelming, a fire hose of bad stuff. There's a negativity bias of the media, which has gotten worse over the last 20 years. In addition, we're also taught we're just individuals, right?

There's the fact that we get more media now in the last 20 years than we've ever gotten from all corners of the globe. It's overwhelming, a fire hose of bad stuff. There's a negativity bias of the media, which has gotten worse over the last 20 years. In addition, we're also taught we're just individuals, right?

There's the fact that we get more media now in the last 20 years than we've ever gotten from all corners of the globe. It's overwhelming, a fire hose of bad stuff. There's a negativity bias of the media, which has gotten worse over the last 20 years. In addition, we're also taught we're just individuals, right?

So to go back to this point of individualism, oftentimes that feeling of despair comes from feeling I'm too small to fix this problem. Pseudo-inefficacy, this beautiful term that social psychologists use, is all about the negative feeling of not being able to solve a whole problem outweighing the positive feeling of being able to solve just a small part of it.

So to go back to this point of individualism, oftentimes that feeling of despair comes from feeling I'm too small to fix this problem. Pseudo-inefficacy, this beautiful term that social psychologists use, is all about the negative feeling of not being able to solve a whole problem outweighing the positive feeling of being able to solve just a small part of it.

So to go back to this point of individualism, oftentimes that feeling of despair comes from feeling I'm too small to fix this problem. Pseudo-inefficacy, this beautiful term that social psychologists use, is all about the negative feeling of not being able to solve a whole problem outweighing the positive feeling of being able to solve just a small part of it.

And so this negative feeling of I can't fix the whole problem because I'm so small is Makes us not even want to solve a little part of it. That's an actual bias in the brain. So all of these kinds of things about how small we are, how we perceive ourselves to be powerless, how big the problem is and therefore we can't tackle it, how there's nobody else around who cares as much as us.

And so this negative feeling of I can't fix the whole problem because I'm so small is Makes us not even want to solve a little part of it. That's an actual bias in the brain. So all of these kinds of things about how small we are, how we perceive ourselves to be powerless, how big the problem is and therefore we can't tackle it, how there's nobody else around who cares as much as us.

And so this negative feeling of I can't fix the whole problem because I'm so small is Makes us not even want to solve a little part of it. That's an actual bias in the brain. So all of these kinds of things about how small we are, how we perceive ourselves to be powerless, how big the problem is and therefore we can't tackle it, how there's nobody else around who cares as much as us.