In fact, 60% of Americans are concerned aboutclimate change, according to a survey by the Potential Energy Coalition. For many moms, having a child is what made them start to care about climate change in the first place. Eighty-three percent of moms are concerned about climate change and w...
HOW MUCH SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?Marco Magrini
according to preliminary evidence: Conservatives tend to underestimate support for climate change policies because of a "false consensus effect," which in psychology refers to a tendency to see your own beliefs as more widely held than is actually the case. This...
On all three, climate change appears less worrying than most.Consider, first, the magnitude of the forecasted impact. Many worrying problems feature the credible prospect of killing a significant share of the human population or erasing modern civilization. Not extreme climate change. For instance, ...
When people think about climate change, they think in terms of their personal impact on climate. Our research shows that their own carbon footprint is still the primary lens through which customers think about climate. This creates a bias toward climate action that directly involves the ...
Climate change is already hitting home, and of course will do so much more in the future. Gernot Wagner climate economist at Columbia Business School Extreme heat reduces worker productivity Many of the impacts can be somewhat unpredictable, Wagner added. ...
Many people take the bus to go to and from work to travel by bus on their vacation. If you are a foreign country like America. And you don't understand bus schedules in English. You might end up on the wrong bus to las vegas instead of new york. Practice reading the following ...
根据最后一段Whatever the complications, we urgently need a UN Framework Convention on Population, just as we have for climate change. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us."无论问题有多复杂,我们都迫切需要一个联合国人口框架公约,就像我们对气候变化所做的...
The Colorado River, the water source for 40 million people across the west, is in a worse state than previously believed, according to a recent study published in Earth's Future. Drought and dry conditions, compounded by climate change, put the Colorado River in greater jeopardy, the ...
us do not know or care about climate change. The environmental changes such as droughts, floods, increased fire occurrences, forest changes, loss of biodiversity, increased temperatures are sudden and difficult to adapt to. All these have a direct influence on people’s menta...