Robert Gifford (1 November 2013). 'The Psychology of Climate Action and Inaction', IIEA
https://www.youtube.com/embed/jqVPQEzScdc
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9p-onUbgJ4 Bio: https://robertgifford.com/#about Related: to the phenomenon of 'climate change denialism' e.g. http://trigg.gr/tag/TheoryDragonsOfInactionDiscredenceDenialScam Point: The following New York Times article presets a critique of the 2015 book 'Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming' https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/Why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming-:-the-NIPCC-report-on-scientific-consensus/oclc/954342910 which seemingly seeks to frustrate efforts addressing the challenges of climate change. And doing so a question must be asked 'to whose benefit does such an argument advance'? Discussion: "The book is unscientific propaganda from authors with connections to the disinformation-machinery of the Heartland Institute. In a recent letter to his members, David L. Evans, https://www.desmog.com/david-evans/ executive director of the National Science Teachers Association, said that 'labeling propaganda as science does not make it so.' He called the institute’s mass mailing of the book an 'unprecedented attack' on science education. Judging from the responses of educators I know who have received 'Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming' in recent weeks, most copies of it are likely to be ignored or discarded. But if only a small percentage of teachers use it as intended, they could still mislead tens of thousands of students with it year after year" (Stager, C., 2017, April 27). Related: http://trigg.gr/tag/AdvocacyUSTheHeartlandInstitute e.g. http://trigg.gr/t/1539 such as the Heartland Institute’s Steve Milloy https://www.desmog.com/steve-milloy/ and Paul Driessen https://www.desmog.com/paul-driessen/ Concept: Such resistance to change can be understood in terms of Pierre Bourdieu's concept of 'social inertia' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_inertia (Bourdieu 1985) e.g. http://trigg.gr/t/104691#104691B843905.S1 Bibliography: Gifford, R. (2011). 'The Dragons of Inaction'. American Psychologist, 66, 290–302. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023566 Bourdieu, P. (1985). 'The Social Space and the Genesis of Groups.' Theory and Society 14(6): 723–744. Stager, C. (2017, April 27). 'Sowing Climate Doubt Among Schoolteachers'. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/opinion/sowing-climate-doubt-among-schoolteachers.html
