Even in Greek towns razed by wildfires, people don’t blame the climate crisis
Cognitive dissonance strikes again:
The more I spoke to people, including climate scientists, the more I came to see that there is often a gap that separates science from public awareness and debate. In her book Engaging With Climate Change, the psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe says that “many people who accept anthropogenic global warming continue to locate it as a problem of the future”. To my astonishment, this seemed to apply even to people who had themselves been affected directly by wildfires. Perhaps the reality is too huge and too painful, the guilt too much to bear?
(tags: climate-change cognitive-dissonance reality future wildfires greece politics)