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Mar 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Here, @KHayhoe illustrates a human phenomenon with data.
"We humans, are regrettably, very good at #PsychologicalDistance. If there's a problem we're confronting but we don't know what to do about it, we just push it off. On climate change, we do it in every single way we can."
"How do we address solutions? People are willing to change if they think that what they do will make a difference. And the social science word for this is #Efficacy."
"How do we tackle psychological distance and build efficacy?"
