Don’t even think about it (Buch von 2014)
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George Marshall: Don’t even think about it. Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
Der im Klappentext angedeutete Teil darüber, wie wir das Problem Klimawandel doch noch bewältigen können, ist erwartbar der schwächste. Alles andere fand ich aber klug recherchiert und sehr erhellend. Mensch merkt auch, dass das Buch inzwischen etwas in die Jahre gekommen ist – es wurde vor dem Parisabkommen geschrieben, und MAGA hatte noch nicht die Tea Party abgelöst.
Klappentext
Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still act as if climate change doesn’t exist?
George Marshall’s search for the answer brings him face to face with Nobel Prize winning psychologists and Texas Tea Party activists; the world’s leading climate scientists and those who denounce them; liberal environmentalists and conservative evangelicals. Surprsingly, the answerts don’t lie in the things that make us different, but rather in what we share—our evolutionary origins, our perceptions of threats, our cognitive blind spots, our love of storytelling, our fear of death, and our deepest instincts to defend our family and tribe. Once we understand what excites, threatens, and motivates us, we can rethink climate change, for it is not an impossible problem. Rather, we can halt it if we make it our common purpose and common ground. In the end, Don’t Even Think About It is both about climate change and about the qualities that make us human and how we can deal with the greatest challenge we have ever faced.