Q: What are the psychological reasons we might avoid acting on the information we have about climate change?
A: Fight, flight and freeze mechanisms are an integral part of the older part of the brain … It’s affective, and it’s emotional … When you’re presented with traumatic information, the self-regulatory processes that normally work in a fluid manner are disrupted to the point where you cannot take in information.
#ecopsychology #solarpunk #climatechange
https://boulderweekly.com/boulderganic/ncar-scientiest-weight-of-the-world/
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