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Katharine Hayhoe On Healing Dangerous Climate Divisions

The Climate Pod

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What Is Psychological Distance?

Psychological distance is one of the reasons why people refuse to act. We see problems like hard attacks, or not having enough money saved for retirement, as being distant in time and future. When we bring climate change here to where we live, it decreases our psychological distance over something that might matter to us even more than politics.

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