How much should we care about climate change?

There is a growing evidence that people have accepted the reality of climate change and the need for action. But there is significant divergence in attitudes toward the salience of the problem — which is to say, how big a problem it is, how much it should matter to us, and where to rank climate change in a list of national priorities.

An episode of the The Minefield podcast, hosted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, titled "How much should we care about climate change?" was published on October 21, 2021 and runs 54 minutes.

October 21, 2021 ·54m · The Minefield

Summary

There is a growing evidence that people have accepted the reality of climate change and the need for action. But there is significant divergence in attitudes toward the salience of the problem — which is to say, how big a problem it is, how much it should matter to us, and where to rank climate change in a list of national priorities.

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