Nature Climate Change Study: Climate Science Needs to Talk About Solutions
There’s a term in psychology called learned helplessness. You expose someone to enough negative outcomes they can’t control, and eventually they stop trying to change anything — even when they could. A new study published in Nature Climate Change argues that climate communication has been accidentally running that experiment on the public for decades. The paper, led by Dr. Anya Sharma at the University of Oxford, makes the case that climate science has spent disproportionate energy documenting the scale of the crisis and not enough time demonstrating credible pathways out of it. The result: an informed public that knows exactly how bad things are, and increasingly believes nothing can be done. ...