Psychology of Climate Inaction
“I find it really hard to get worried about 1.5 degrees of warming. I just don’t know what that means”. Dr Kate Jeffrey, a University College London professor, is talking about why she has historically been ‘relatively unconcerned with the ecological crisis”. The thing is, while Jeffrey is a scientist, she is “not a climate scientist”. Jeffrey grew up in New Zealand, born into a medical family. Looking down over “what we called a city” you could see hills, and beyond the harb