Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.
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To fight climate change, we need to take people’s cognitive biases into account.
Optimism and pessimism can lead to poor decision making.
Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young – and how it fades over time.
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President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
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Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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