Obligatory reading

Norgaard, K. M. 2018. The sociological imagination in a time of climate change. Global and Planetary Change, 163, 171-176.

Brick, C. & van der Linden, S. 2018. Yawning at the apocalypse. The Psychologist 31, Pp. 30-35.

Question 3:

What are some of the reasons that make it difficult for us, as a society, to address the looming risk of climate change, and to imagine solutions to it?

Optional reading

Brulle, R. J., & Norgaard, K. M. 2019. Avoiding cultural trauma: climate change and social inertia. Environmental Politics, 28(5), 886-908.

Beck, U. 1992. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: SAGE.

Marshall, G. 2015. Don't even think about it: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.