In a previous post I pondered the question ‘why we get so emotional about climate change?‘

I suggested a key reason was because the implications of climate change affect us in so many fundamental ways:

• our personal identities and roles (mother, father, journalist, politician);
• the stories we tell ourselves and others about who we are (where I’ve come from, where I am, who I want to be);
• our world views and ideologies (e.g. social democrat, small ‘l’ liberal, conservative, free-market libertarian).

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