It fascinates me that some people can deny what is going on around them in the face of overwhelming evidence. A few years ago I attended a Crewe Alexandra football match, as you do, and as the ball went whizzing past their goalkeeper and into the back of the net for the third time, the guy beside me said "Right, we're going to have to start playing now and teach this lot a lesson". I giggled and looked at him, only to realise that he was deadly serious and wondering why a strange Scotsman was laughing at his team.
When it comes to climate change, denial in the face of the evidence takes two forms. There are those who deny because it suits them, mostly because they will gain from that denial in one way or another.
Then there are those who fascinate me the most, the ones who would rather believe the first group of deniers. They don't gain out of it, and in fact it can make that person look mischievous or just plain stupid. What motivates them? What drives their psyche to declare everything is wonderful and should remain the way it is in perpetuity?
The Green Living Blog has a guest post by psychologist Adam Corner, in which he discusses a couple of experiments about "the threat of climate change to our identity and self esteem".
I urge you to go read.
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