There’s been a shift in how we think about climate change
Opinion by Rebecca Leber, August 31, 2023
"There was quite a lot of broader psychological research to support this idea that people can only worry about a limited number of things at one time — whatever is top of mind. There’s this cognitive bias called 'the availability heuristic,' which means that I’m only going to be worried about something that occurred in the recent past.
"Over the past 20 or 30 years, media coverage had a strong agenda-setting effect on the issue. Polling suggested concern about climate change would wax and wane with whatever was in the news media, and to some extent, people’s own experiences.
"We hypothesized that the pandemic logically should completely displace concern about climate change. It’s a massive crisis, everybody’s worried about it, so surely, we don’t have enough worry left for climate change. But we found throughout the polling that we did over the last few years, concern was either maintained or at various points even grew. It seemed like Covid was not displacing concern about climate change."
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/there-s-been-a-shift-in-how-we-think-about-climate-change/ar-AA1g21tX?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=3b22f0848f7145c5d9ba5371bcc7aa1c&ei=7
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