Barriers to Climate Action

In this Climate Chat discussion, host Dan Miller will discuss why we continue to choose to fail to act on climate. In last week's episode, Dan discussed his 20-point global climate action plan. While the policies presented are obviously needed, we continue to muddle along without taking serious action even though we know it is needed. Why is that? After Dan put together his policy plan several years ago, he wondered why we fail to act on climate and so he made another list -- which is significantly longer than his policy plan list -- of some of the reasons we fail to act. Some of the reasons are related to human cognitive limitations, some are related to limits to communications and education, some are due to the political system, some related to inertia of systems, and some are due to the interest of a few vs. the interest of the many. Here is the list posted on X/Twitter: https://x.com/danmiller999/status/1796424795644744154 Here is a link to the episode on Dan's 20-point climate action plan: https://youtube.com/live/p2496OB1EmI You can view Dan's TEDx talk on climate change and Fee and Dividend carbon pricing policy. It includes a discussion of the psycology of climate inaction: https://youtu.be/0k2-SzlDGko Carl Bergstrom's paper on how disinformation is as big a threat to civilization as climate change is: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2025764118 Follow Dan on X/Twitter: @danmiller999 To join the Zoom discussion, visit Dan's Clubhouse room. The link is provided in Dan's Twitter feed. You can also leave a question in the YouTube Live chat. Please begin your question with "Question:" to make it easy for our mods to spot. For more Climate Chat episodes, see our YouTube home page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3BXcpYFCzTndJ9Fisi32qg