George Marshall (author of Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change [1], [2]) gave a really interesting talk/discussion to the Climate Psychology Alliance last night, and this is a two...
Read MoreSteve Westlake on twitter points to an ideological hypothesis about human nature which is used to justify not doing anything about climate change. He calls it “behavioural realism” based on Mark Fisher’s idea...
Read MoreRevised 8 May 2020 I’ve been reading quite a bit of Bjorn Lomborg recently, for my research on climate technologies and their social consequences – and I’ve been reasonably critical of some of his writing and...
Read MoreThere is an argument going around that all we have to do to solve the climate problem is to wait for all the old people to die off. Most versions of the theory just assume this is completely obvious and needs no justification,...
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