Making people aware of eco-innovations can decrease climate despair
Neale, C., Austin, M. M., Roe, J., & Converse, B. A. (2023). Making people aware of eco-innovations can decrease climate despair. Climatic Change, vol. 176 (12), pages 1-21.
Climate despair—a sense of hopelessness about humanity’s ability to pursue a sustainable future—is emerging as a psychosocial threat. Psychological science conceptualizes hopelessness as a cognitive schema characterized by negative expectancies. Climate hopelessness, then, may be conceptualized as a mental model that represents climate change as a massive problem with futile response options.