Per Espen Stoknes discusses "What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming"

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Per Espen Stoknes discusses "What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming"

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Per Espen Stoknes about his new book, "What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action."

The more facts that pile up about global warming, the greater the resistance to them grows, making it harder to enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare communities for the inevitable change ahead.

It is a catch-22 that starts, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stoknes, from an inadequate understanding of the way most humans think, act, and live in the world around them. With dozens of examples—from the private sector to government agencies—Stoknes shows how to retell the story of climate change and, at the same time, create positive, meaningful actions that can be supported even by deniers. Stoknes identifies five main psychological barriers to climate action, and addresses them with five strategies for how to talk about global warming in a way that creates action and solutions, not further inaction and despair.

Per Espen Stoknes is a psychologist and an economist. An entrepreneur, he has cofounded clean-energy companies, and he spearheads the BI Norwegian Business School’s executive program on green growth. He has written three books, including Money and Soul. 
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