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The climate and ecological crisis poses an unprecedented challenge, with scientists playing a critical role in how society understands and responds. This study examined how 27 environmentally concerned scientists from 11 countries construct the future in the context of climate change, applying a critical discursive psychology analysis. The degree to which the future is constructed as predetermined or transformable impacts both the urgency and scope of proposed actions. ...

Link to climate activism is seven times stronger for anger than it is for hope, say Norwegian researchers

A team of Penn State researchers investigated how seeing frightening news about climate change day after day may shape the way people feel about the phenomenon and how willing they are to take action to address it. They published their findings in the journal Climatic Change. 

As those most responsible for the crisis recede into history, our energy is better spent responding to the world we have created

The World’s Next Big Problem Is That We’re Too Depressed and Traumatized to Fix All the Others

The author and eminent climate scientist on the deniers’ new tactics and why positive change feels closer than it has done in 20 years

Some research suggests that while fear can prompt us to spring into action, hope actually gives us something to do.