Living in Denial
Why people who know about climate change still carry on as before, seen through one Norwegian town.
Kari Marie Norgaard, a sociologist, spent a year in a Norwegian town that was already seeing the effects of climate change, including a winter without snow. She found that people knew the facts but kept them at a distance. The book shows how denial is organised through everyday talk, emotion and national identity, and why knowledge does not lead to action.
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Juliet Schor
The Norwegians were stuck in ways that many of us in other wealthy countries are stuck in as well. Her book is not necessarily an answer but, by analysing why we are stuck, it points to some of the ways in which we might move forward.
Interview · March 2012
Carol Gilligan
Living in Denial describes the many kinds of denial we can engage in. It also underscores a point that is central to the shift in the paradigm of the human sciences – namely, emotion is key to seeing things accurately and to acting on what we see.
Interview · November 2012
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