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Do People Really Feel The 'Sense Of Urgency' In Global Warming?
Scientific evidence shows the main influences of climate change are behavioral, population growth and energy consumption.
"What is unique about current global climate change is the role of human behavior," said task force's American Psychological Association (APA) chair, Janet Swim of Pennsylvania State University. "We must look at the reasons people are not acting in order to understand how to get people to act," she added.
APA's Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change examined decades of psychological research and practice that have been specifically applied and tested in the arena of climate change, such as environmental and conservation psychology and research on natural and technological disasters.
The task force presented its findings at APA's 117th Annual Convention in Toronto in a report that was accepted by the association's governing Council of Representatives.
The task force's report offers a detailed look at the connection between psychology and global climate change and makes policy recommendations for psychological science.
It cites a national Pew Research Center poll in which 75 percent to 80 percent of respondents said that climate change is an important issue.
But, respondents ranked it last in a list of 20 compelling issues, such as the economy or terrorism.
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