Hi George,
Excellent presentations.
Is that bottled water on the desk?
John
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 11:11 +0000, George Marshall wrote:
> Dear friends,
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> I have loaded up on youtube a presentation called ‘The Ingenious Ways
> We Avoid Believing in Climate Change’. It contains a lot of my ideas
> and material on the psychology of climate change denial and climate
> communications and comes in three instalments.
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> Part one
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> Risk – and why we don’t feel threatened by climate change
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> Belief – why we can’t just accept the information and need to believe
> in it
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> Attention – how avoiding talking about climate change is like
> avoiding talking about human rights atrocities
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOsl5-AUTv4
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> Part two –
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> Stories – the way we mediate information about climate change. The
> problem with polar bears and why human rights organisations are more
> interested in ice cream than climate change.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5Zu_YGxjw&feature=related
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> Part three
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> Distancing – the strategies we adopt to keep the information at arm’s
> length
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> Compartmentalising – how we can accept climate change and continue
> polluting behaviour
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> Positive Framing – how we seek to turn climate change into a personal
> advantage
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> Ethical Offsets – how we adopt the easiest behaviours as proof of our
> virtue
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> Cynicism- the commercial appropriation of climate change images
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> What happens next? - surprisingly - what happens next
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da1zW3dG_ko
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> OK- it is hardly Inconvenient Truth or Story of Stuff. It was a
> lecture I gave last year at a climate psychology conference at the
> University of the West of England and I didn’t really twig that it was
> being taped or I would have worn a better jumper and not slouched
> about so much- but it was a nice lively audience and I got enough time
> to cover the ground well. All in all I am pleased with it and I think
> it is an entertaining introduction to the topic.
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> I really hope you do to.
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> Please share it with anyone who might like it and embed it anywhere
> you want
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