TY - BOOK AU - Kari Marie Norgaard AU - Kari Marie Norgaard TI - Living in denial : : climate change, emotions, and everyday life T2 - Book collections on Project MUSE.; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE., Global Cultural Studies Supplement SN - 9780262515856 U1 - 304.25 NOR PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - : MIT Press KW - Environmental Science KW - Environmental policy--Citizen participation N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -