Psychological barriers hobble climate action | Green Business | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Psychological barriers like uncertainty, mistrust and denial keep most Americans from acting to fight climate change, a task force of the American Psychological Association said on Wednesday.  [225-page report here]

Business Spectator - News - Carbon tax by proxy - Alan Kohler

Unlike the Republic proposition, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is not going to be put to a referendum.

If it was, it would be lost, and for a very similar reason: there is a growing coalition between those who oppose it entirely and those who oppose the way it’s being done.