'The common wisdom is that only upper-middle-class, white, well-educated, latte-sipping liberals care about climate change. Turns out that's not true.'
1 / 4Kate Schapira, a 40-year-old senior lecturer in the English department at Brown University, mans her "climate anxiety" booth in ProvidenceKate Schapira, a 40-year-old senior lecturer in the English department at Brown University, mans her"climate anxiety" booth in Providence Washington - In the melting Arctic, communities are racing to maintain their way of life. In the rising Pacific, residents are sounding alarm bells.
The decision not to have children was not just about concern for their future wellbeing amid environmental degradation, she explained, but also about not wanting"my sense of responsibility to the world to shrink down to the size of one person."She said she was troubled that people were treating her climate fears"like a personal, individual problem," she said, and she wanted to"see if that was actually the case.
Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, said Americans can be broken into six categories based on their reaction to climate change, ranging from alarmed to dismissive. Story continuesThey are"dramatically different in terms of how they perceive the risk than everybody else" he said, thanks in large part to"a worldview that we call individualism" -- particularly pronounced in that group.
"I actually have no hesitation in saying that on some level, I believe that everyone now has some climate anxiety," Van Susteren said. "What we do individually is counted collectively," she said, indicating that one person's behaviors can help establish consequential social norms.
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