10 . Denying personal change for climate change
Andrew Bartlett writes:



Melbourne based blogger Andrew Norton
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57d-b569-8d136285ddf5&rid=0c455ffe-e339-48e4-a9a2-f9cbfb4f04e4> was the
first person I saw use the term "the real greenhouse denialists" to
describe people who accept the scientific arguments about climate
change, but still aren't prepared to try to make the major changes
to their own lifestyles that would be necessary to meet the required
emission levels.

I think this term encapsulates what I see as the biggest barrier to
addressing the climate change threat -- a lack of awareness of just how
much we need to change our economic and personal behaviours, and/or a
lack of willingness to do it (as well as the normal human approach of
expecting "someone else" to "do something" when it comes to big
problems)

As Andrew Norton put it last year
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3dc-8fa0-dd00208941c0&rid=0c455ffe-e339-48e4-a9a2-f9cbfb4f04e4> :

This is the greenhouse `denialist' problem -- not a few
conservatives arguing that climate change is a left-wing conspiracy,
but a public that accepts the theory but rejects the consequences of
their beliefs.

There have been a couple more reports of late which reinforce this
view.

The ABC reported recently
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647-857a-2922953eb684&rid=0c455ffe-e339-48e4-a9a2-f9cbfb4f04e4> on a
survey done by the Australian National University which found that
"Australians are deeply concerned about global warming but are only
prepared to change their behaviour in small ways."



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