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Don't even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change / George Marshall.

by Marshall, George, author.

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New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Climatic changes -- Popular works.

Global warming.

Human ecology -- Study and teaching.

9781620401330 (hbk.) :

1620401339 (hbk.)

260 pages ; 25 cm

First U.S. edition.

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.

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