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5 Stages of Climate Grief

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From www.friendsof2rivers.org - March 17, 3:00 PM
The 5 Stages of Climate Grief written by University of Montana Professor Dr. Steven W. Running.

 

I recently took a fresh look at the widely recognized concepts on the "5 stages of grief" that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross defined back in the 1970s to summarize how people deal differentially with shocking news, such as being informed that they have terminal cancer. It seems that these stages of grief provide a very good analogy to how people are now reacting to the global warming topic, so I have formulated my "5 Stages of Climate Grief".


Via Daniel LaLiberte
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Daniel LaLiberte's curator insight, March 17, 1:01 PM

My summary:

 

1. DENIAL - "There is no global warming, and in fact, it's actually cooling." 

 

2. ANGER -  "Climate may be warming, but it is not caused by us puny humans."  "It's all a huge hoax to enslave humanity!" 

 

3. BARGAINING - "OK, human activities are causing the warming, but it is not so serious, and it might even be good for us." 

 

4. DEPRESSION - "Oh God, it is serious, and it's way too late to stop it before global ecological catastrophes destroy half of all life and world wars destroy what remains of our civilization.  We're doomed!"

 

5. ACCEPTANCE - "Get a grip!  There are many things we can do to slow the damage, and reverse it in a very few decades.  We have enormous amounts of renewable energy available to us, but we have to get busy tapping into it as soon as possible."

 

By the way, the 5 stages are not so clear cut, and not universal to everyone, but they are a useful guide anyway.
Daniel LaLiberte's comment, March 17, 1:06 PM
"For Climate Hawks, The Five Stages of Grief Are Reversed" - http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/01/1644511/for-climate-hawks-the-five-stages-of-grief-are-reversed/
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» IMF Backs “Green Economy” – Is it Good for Developing Countries? » Global Development: Views from the Center | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it
From blogs.cgdev.org - June 19, 2012 11:06 AM

IMF managing director Christine Lagarde announced at a CGD event on Tuesday that the IMF would provide research and analytic support in three areas crucial to sustainable development: carbon pricing, phasing out fossil fuel subsidies and green national accounting, that is, development of new measures of economic progress that take into account environmental costs and benefits not included in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). She also announced that she would be attending the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Brazil next week, a first for an IMF head. (See here for Lawrence MacDonald’s summary and analysis of the speech.)

 

In comments after the speech, Nancy Birdsall singled out the IMF work on new ways to measure economic activity as having far-reaching consequences. I agree. Current measures too often count environmental destruction as a benefit—a forest only counts in GDP when it is cut down and turned into timber. Everybody knows we need a better yardstick. Lagarde’s speech is a welcome endorsement from the citadel of economic orthodoxy of the clear need for new and better measures


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