<story><title>Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss</title><url>https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/yes-im-feeling-bad-about-climate-change-lets-discuss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>&amp;gt;Recognizing emotions as part of the problem and solution feels like a big step.&lt;p&gt;I think this is actually the worst thing we can do. Science is facts, cold hard facts.&lt;p&gt;If you want to get rid of the science and focus on emotions, then the solutions to the _real_ problem will get distorted.</text></item><item><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>Agreed. It really touches on the emotional aspects of it, which I think really need to be discussed.&lt;p&gt;When I picture why certain family members have a hard time accepting the reality of global warming, it certainly comes down to difficulty grappling with emotions, not a hard review of the literature.&lt;p&gt;Recognizing emotions as part of the problem and solution feels like a big step.</text></item><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>This is a really good article. It touches on the global denial, the gross generational inequality of the status quo, and acknowledges the personal mental health difficulty in trying to accept what the human race has done.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also pragmatic and talks about what&amp;#x27;s being done. Very worthwhile reading in its entirety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway5752</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t want to sound harsh, but you&amp;#x27;re wrong because you&amp;#x27;re missing the point, and badly.&lt;p&gt;The author talks about cancer diagnoses. This is an apt analogy, and there is a huge body of science for helping individuals cope with personal tragedy. Global warming is a global and personal tragedy. People will have their livelihoods ruined, and people will die. People already have, but (since this is a anglophile community) this forum is mostly insulated from developments in North Africa, the Middle East, Central America... how it impacts us is in the nationalistic&amp;#x2F;xenophobic movements around the resulting human migrations. Acknowledging this will prevent conflict and harm those that cynically try to take advantage of groups of people in vulnerable states through demagoguing.&lt;p&gt;The science should be cold an unemotional. The policy dictated by the science should be sensitive to the mental health of everyone as they absorb the magnitude of this disaster.</text></comment>
<story><title>Yes, I’m Feeling Bad About Climate Change. Let’s Discuss</title><url>https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/yes-im-feeling-bad-about-climate-change-lets-discuss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>&amp;gt;Recognizing emotions as part of the problem and solution feels like a big step.&lt;p&gt;I think this is actually the worst thing we can do. Science is facts, cold hard facts.&lt;p&gt;If you want to get rid of the science and focus on emotions, then the solutions to the _real_ problem will get distorted.</text></item><item><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>Agreed. It really touches on the emotional aspects of it, which I think really need to be discussed.&lt;p&gt;When I picture why certain family members have a hard time accepting the reality of global warming, it certainly comes down to difficulty grappling with emotions, not a hard review of the literature.&lt;p&gt;Recognizing emotions as part of the problem and solution feels like a big step.</text></item><item><author>throwaway5752</author><text>This is a really good article. It touches on the global denial, the gross generational inequality of the status quo, and acknowledges the personal mental health difficulty in trying to accept what the human race has done.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also pragmatic and talks about what&amp;#x27;s being done. Very worthwhile reading in its entirety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfarrell</author><text>The science of what is happening is fact. The method by which we engage our collective powers to act is a people problem. We can come together in action, but that requires connecting with as many of our personalities and psyches as possible.</text></comment>