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Joe Brewer - Rites of Passage For Cultural Evolution

Future Thinkers

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Climate Change and the Terror Management Theory

The anxiety about the future is experienced in the present. The behaviors that are needed to change the future are behaviours we act out in the present because most of our feelings about the future are negative. So the only way for us to behave appropriately in the present is to go through a grieving process and develop ways of managing drama. And so this is the main place where the behavior change breaks down. It evokes fear, anxiety, shame, grief, pain, et cetera. S you have these kinds of a very emotionally intense and painful kinds of experiences. We need psychological mechanisms to manage that anxiety and terror. This is the place where the work needs to be done.

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