Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life

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Index Aall, Carlo, 228 Access, gaining, 238–239 ACNielsen, 76 Advertising, 151–153 Affect, 65, 90, 214 Afghanistan War, 203 Agriculture, 15, 16, 113, 234, 240 climate change impacts, 185, 188 community-supported, 227 mountains, 155 skiing and, 17–18, 37 Air travel, 75, 221 Alaska, xv, 185, 187 Allemannsferdselrett (freedom of travel and land use), 147, 156 American Geophysical Union, 190, 191–192, 193 “Amerika as tension point” narrative, 142, 163–167, 171, 174–175 Amnesty International, 235 Andersen, Benedict, 116 Anti-intellectualism, 203 Apathy, xvi–xviii, 58–60, 60–62, 85. See also Guilt; Powerlessness American vs. Norwegian, 178–179 efficacy and, 76, 101, 191–192 guilt and, 195 lack of political talk, 105, 215–216 local news and, 51 political alienation and, 79 political economy and, 225 powerlessness and, 190 research explanations for, 1–3 significance of, 13, 177–178 social construction of, 33–34, 207 study of, 63, 209 as suffering, 222 Arendt, Hannah importance of conversation, 97–98, 122 political talk, 41–43, 53 volunteer organizing, 44 Attention. See also Attention, selective; Attention norms shifting of, 128–132 social construction of, 6, 11 Attention, selective. See also Local focus; Past, connection to cultural narratives and, 173 cultural tool kit, 123 as emotion management, 174, 182, 197 examples of, 132 narratives, 213–214 Attention norms, 76, 112–120, 173 as cultural tool, 121–122 invisibility of, 132, 133 local focus and, 25, 119–120 organization of space, 116–117 political economy, 210 in production of denial, 212–213 sense of past, 112–116, 118–119 Australia, 178 Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life (Eliasoph), 33, 215 266 Index Awareness American vs. Norwegian, 179 vs. apathy, xvi–xviii vs. concern, 2, 68, 74, 177, 191–192 denial of self-involvement and, 71–72 emotion management and, 208 emotions and, 223 national identity and, 87–88 powerlessness and, 195–197 social organization of, 13, 72 Beck, Ulrich individualism, 204, 226 risk societies, 33, 83, 84 wealth inequality, 62 Belgium, 22 Bell, Michael, 150 Bellah, Robert, 192, 193, 225 Bergens Tidende (Bergen Times), 40, 42, 92 Berggreen, Brit, 149 Bondevik, Kjell Magne, 39 Bostrom, Ann, 64, 65 Brazil, 77 Brende, Børge, 71 Brewer, Thomas, 64 Brown, Molly Young, 58–59, 82 Brulle, Robert, 225 Brundtland, Gro Harlem, 71 Bryn, Steinar, 163, 165 Buell, Frederick, 177, 189 Bulkeley, Harriet, 63, 65, 72 Burke, Peter, 90–91 Bush, George W. (and administration of) Kyoto Protocol, 40, 45–46, 166, 186, 202–203 skepticism, xviii, 68–69, 186, 233 Bygdaby, 245n1 (prologue) political engagement in, 16–17 town description, 14–15, 26, 234–235 Bygdaby Posten (newspaper). See Newspapers, local Canada, 77 Capitalism, 62, 220–222 Carbon emissions. See Emissions Carbon footprints, 77, 170, 228, 247n3 (chap. 5) Carbon trading, 140–141, 167, 172 Caring. See Concern Chernobyl accident, 22–23 Church’s Emergency Aid (Kirkens Nødhelp), 157 Citizenship and globalization, 222 City council, 99 Claims to virtue, 143, 162–163, 171–175 Climate change assessment of, 40 basic facts, 2 climate models, 64 as national issue, 43–44 rising sea levels, xv, 76, 185, 221 Climate talks at The Hague, xvi–xvii, 39, 79 Climate vs. weather, xvi Coal, 2, 67, 172, 173 Coastlines, Florida, 185 Cognition, 214 cognitive architecture, 210 emotions and, 89–91, 91–92, 93–94, 207 political economy and, 12 social, 11, 90, 207, 212 Cognitive dissonance. See also Double realities emotions and, 190, 194, 214 identity and, 217 individualism and, 204–205 privilege and, 216 self-efficacy and, 67–68, 90, 190, 194, 217 Cognitive traditions, 5–6, 13, 14 Cohen, Stanley apathy, 33, 59 denial and identity, 88 doubleness, 60, 72 interpretive denial, 162–163, 172 invisibility of denial, 133 literal denial, 179 Index 267 modern capitalism, 220, 221 types of denial, 10–11, 211–212 Cold War, 164 Common Knowledge (Bulkeley), 63 Concern, 1, 73–74 American lack of, 177, 184 vs. awareness, 2, 68, 74, 177, 191–192 decline in, 74, 78 vs. emissions, 77 vs. self-interest, 193 social norms, 75 United States, 74, 77, 187 vs. wealth, 77 Confirmation bias, 65 Conforming equality and, 154 guilt and, 75, 86–87, 195, 211 masculinity and, 107 social pressure, 75, 97, 122–123 Constitution Day, 24, 25, 81, 156 Consumerism. See Materialism Control vs. powerlessness, 101 Conversation, 11, 52–62. See also Conversational control/tactics; Conversation norms; Small talk apathy, 59–60 climate change as killer...