Why Climate Denialists are Blind to Facts and Reason: The Role of Ideology | celsias°

Editor's Note: With this post we welcome Johnny Rook to the Celsias writer's group. Johnny is a linguist and historian by training, and has taught in several universities and colleges, worked launching rockets in the aerospace industry and as an interpreter in the United States Federal Courts. An avid hiker, cyclist, and sea kayaker, he is especially interested in environmental questions, particularly those relating to Climaticide and water policy. He is the editor of Climaticide Chronicles and lives with his wife and son in Port Townsend, Washington.

The Five Stages - Denial to Determination | celsias°

Acceptance and understanding of Global Warming is an overwhelming action. Truly understanding what we all face commands a decision about how one will interact with the globe from that moment on. Now, for better or worse, there are many (often illegitimate) reasons for skepticism about Global Warming . One of these is, quite clearly, an emotional desire to avoid having to face those decisions in the face. But, there is a path toward that decision point. For quite good reasons, that path is very close to that outlined by the late Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in Death and Denying for dealing with life’s tragedies.

1. Denial
2. Skepticism (anger for dealing with grief)
3. Delay (bargaining)
4. Depression
5. Activism (acceptance)