: climate change, emotions, and everyday life Kari Marie Norgaard creator Kari Marie Norgaard text Environmental policy--Citizen participation Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press , ©2011 monographic eng

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xix, 279 pages ;26 cm. Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In this book sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question. Boundaries and moral order : an introduction to life in Bygdaby -- "Experiencing" global warming : troubling events and public silence -- "People want to protect themselves a little bit" : the why of denial -- The cultural tool kit, part one : cultural cultural norms of attention, emotion, and conversation -- The cultural tool kit, part two : telling stories of mythic nations -- Climate change as background noise in the United States. /Kari Marie Norgaard Environmental Science 304.25 NOR 9780262515856 Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 191125 20200114122554.0