How our brains make it hard to solve climate change
An Indiana University research survey of 2,429 liberals and conservatives agree we need to de-carbonize before it's too late. The questions of
- By when?
- How?
- At what initial costs?
can be answered only by hard science and real economic data. But our society is deadlocked on trying to resolve all three of these science and economic questions via politics.
That will fail.
These researchers found: "Surprisingly, we find bipartisan support for a decarbonized energy future.
Although there is a shared vision for de-carbonization, there are strong partisan differences regarding the policy pathways for getting there.
On average, our participants think that climate change is not the most important problem facing the United States today, but they do view climate change as an important issue for the world today and for the United States and the world in the future."
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