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Wikipedia article–

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

“Cognitive dissonance and attitudes toward climate change”.\

The principle of cognitive dissonance impacts people’s attitudes toward climate change.People  are uncomfortable when they are aware of two conflicting ideas. The topic of climate change presents many opportunities for conflicting ideas, or cognitive dissonance. For example, people can believe that 1) global warming is a  catastrophic reality  caused by humans. 2) To stop global warming, people would have to make great lifestyle, economic and governmental changes that probably can not be achieved. Wood and Millers’ research on disaster risk communication shows that when people become too fearful and are presented with abstract information about an almost unimaginable threat,  people then decide to avoid helpful information. As Woods and Miller point out,  whether channels have begun to understand how cognitive dissonance paralyzes people. These channels find that people are most responsive to visual presentations of threats like storm surges destroying houses. Rachilinski stresses the many psychological barriers to individual and group action on climate change, finding that the root cause of these barriers is cognitive dissonance. For example, people are torn between the reality of climate catastrophe and the sense of guilt for taking part in a global lifestyle that has created this reality. In the article ‘ The Climate Change Challenge and  Barriers to the Exercise of Foresight Intelligence,” authors Ross, Arrow, Cialdini, Diamond- Smith, Dunner et al explain how humans have historically been psychological unable to prepare for  a future catastrophe. This inability is increased when there are competing desires for  short term financial gains. Unfortunately, as Schiffman points out in his 2021 Scientific American article,  the human experience of cognitive dissonance has been used tactically by people on the political right who actively seek to prevent action on climate change. In Schiffman’s view, some people and groups profit from the industries and the economic and government systems directly responsible for excessive carbon emissions. We see this in the proliferation of waste and the destruction, for example, of the Amazon rainforest. It is advantageous for profit seeking people to promote the idea that a catastrophic climate event is inevitable and nothing can be done to stop it. The opposite view, the denial of climate change, is also advantageous for many people. They promote climate change as a hoax.. Both ideas conflict with the correct perception that many people have of the reality of climate change and the possibility of slowing it down. All of this research suggests that cognitive dissonance presents a challenge to combating climate change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-deniers-shift-tactics-to-inactivism/

Climate deniers shift tactics to in-activism.

Ross, L., Arrow, K., Cialdini, R., Diamond-Smith, N., Diamond, J., Dunner, J., (2016). The Climate Change Challenge and Barriers to the Exercise of Foresight Intelligence.Bioscience, 66.5, 363-370.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/90007593

Rachilinski, J.(2000). The Psychology of Global Climate Change. Cornell Law School.

https://www.apa.org/science/about/publications/climate-change

Wood, E., Miller, S. ( 2020) Cognitive Dissonance and Disaster Risk Communication. Research Gate Publication.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347351395_Cognitive_Dissonance_and_Disaster_Risk_Communication