Bindesh Shrestha

3 Steps of Anthropogenic Climate Change Deniers

Posted on February 12, 2010
  1. “You're wrong and I can prove it.
  2. “You're right but it doesn't matter.”
  3. “It matters but it's too late to do anything about it.”

Summarized from the article “Convincing the climate-change skeptics”  by John P. Holdren (2008)

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Why people vote against their own interests?

Posted on February 5, 2010

BBC's report written by David Runciman examines why people vote against their own interests. According to him and other psychologists, such as Drew Weston , people vote based on emotions. So good emotional stories rather than facts convince voters. Original article is here.

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