Climate-fueled extremes are endangering people everywhere. So why aren't we seeing an immediate response at scale?

Because they're only dismantling one barrier to action, psychological distance -- and there are two more.

Lack of efficacy is rampant among those already worried about climate change; and paradoxically, the worse the impacts get, the less we think we can do about it. It's a self-reinforcing cycle.

Solution aversion also hardens as the urgency of action becomes ever more evident.

But here's the good news; they can be tackled, too!

Here's how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkMIjbDtdo0

If I just explain the facts, they'll get it, right?

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@kathhayhoe This is great! (and has been) -- especially the emphasis that more and more facts doesn't convince people who don't want to be convinced...
@ai6yr @kathhayhoe As far as I can tell, the only solution that can work is regime change (democratically, of course!). Is that what you're talking about? It feels like "making good choices"-type solutions are just another smokescreen, because they can't get enough uptake to matter. (We built a Passivhaus in 2013, but I don't see building codes changing, for example).
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@GreenFire @ai6yr @kathhayhoe That's kind of the opposite of what I meant, though. "a difficult political obstacle" exists because we aren't electing the right people. We aren't electing the right people because we (collectively) don't want to. Is that something we can change? That's what I'm getting at. "It's politically difficult" is by design—it's not inherently difficult, but is engineered that way by carbon profiteers.
@GreenFire @ai6yr @kathhayhoe Like, is there a way to make electing climate-friendly legislators at the local, state and federal level easier? Can that be how we help people to feel less helpless? Right now the usual answer to this question is that it's hopeless and we should give up, which, it seems to me, is precisely what Ms. Hayhoe is saying is the problem. I'm not convinced it's hopeless.
Katharine Hayhoe: The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it

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