How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming

In this book, you can learn more about the full argument outlined in the talk. It identifies the five main psychological barriers to climate action and also addresses how to move beyond them with five evidence-based strategies for how to engage with global warming in a way that creates action and solutions, not further inaction and despair. The last part of the book opens up more existential and personal understandings of our relationship to the air, that nourishes our being and all of life. 

The credible story of how we will solve the main part of global warming in three profitable steps to achieve a sun-rich future. It’s a small article painting a realistic, hopeful large picture of the next 20-30 years, based on a consistent quantitative model, exemplifying the power of narrative in visioning the kind of future we want. 

With engaging stories and drawing on years of his own research, Marshall argues that the answers do not lie in the things that make us different, but rather in what we share: how our human brains are wired—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. 

Maybe the world’s leading site on climate psychology research, led by Tony Leiserowitz. Annually updated surveys of the American mind’s perceptions and attitudes about climate change, and lots of analysis and scientific articles, well communicated. 

This funny, 8-minute animation gives an accessible and compact summary of the main psychological dynamics behind the psychological climate paradox; that the more certain the science becomes, the more many of us disengage.

In this talk climate communication expert Susan Hassol distills her most valuable learnings and advice from decades of assisting climate scientists to translate their abstract data and findings into plain English that people can understand. 

Explore deeper existential and phenomenological understandings of humanity’s relationship to the more-than-human world, by reading some open essays by related thinkers.