How to Psychologically Explain Climate Change Denial, by Ray Sanchez CP

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Given that the vast majority of scientists agree with this conclusion, it is hard to comprehend why our elected governments refuse to take steps to respond to this crisis. Instead, they continue to deny our role in climate change and go on with business as usual. Clearly they believe that the people who elected them want them to continue to focus on promoting an economy that will deliver the unsustainable lifestyle they have become accustomed to. Their voters fear losing this in the present more than they fear facing some future disaster that will probably take place after they have died.
How do we explain such nihilism and short sightedness? How do we explain such self-destructive behaviour on such a grand scale?

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