Too Much Doom & Gloom is Not Why People Stopped Believing in Climate Change
November 25, 2010 No Comment
Photo: nosha , Flickr, CC While I do think it’s true that we can an overload on apocalyptic imagery in discussions and stories about climate change, that’s not why people have stopped believing that it’s real. A recent study from UC Berkeley purported to find that too much doom and gloom was turning people off to the very idea of global warming, because it “threatens deeply held beliefs that the world is just, orderly, and stable.” Faced with a concept that poses such a threa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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