Long Nguyen’s Reviews > Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change > Status Update

Last chapters are not so great for me as the author quite overtalked about the relation between climate change and religion.

They defined climate change as an environmental issue and therefore not a resource, an energy, an economic, a health, or a social rights issue. They determined that it would be best managed through emissions trading, and therefore not through regulation, taxation, and rationing.

It was hoped that bringing so many people together would itself create the historic moment; as though the concerts along could single-handedly create a social norm for action. But in the absence of a clear objective and a movement that could galvanize the audience into action, it created a global bystander effect: two billion people waiting on the sidelines to see if someone else would do something

Professor Paul Ehrlich, the biologist at Stanford University, argues that we cannot deal with climate change because "the forces of genetic and cultural selection were not creating brains capable of looking generations ahead"

Our views are constantly being shaped through the negotiation between our own identity, our group loyalty, and our relationship with wider society