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Psychology

Is your Sense of Impending Doom Justified?

Extreme weather, floods and wildfires on top of stories about melting polar ice-sheets should trigger a sense of impending doom in any…

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Climate Denial Politics Psychology

How Corrupt Algorithms damage us: Climate Denial on Facebook

Social media’s most powerful algorithm, the one driving climate denial on Facebook, creates streams of posts for Facebook users designed solely and…

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Psychology

Climate Change and the Meaning of Life

It takes a lot of effort and determination to break out of the bubble of our everyday London, LA, or Sydney lives,…

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Psychology Economy Money

One Way To Leave The World A Better Place

I always told myself I should leave the world a better place than I found it. So do a lot of people,…

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History Economy Energy Podcast Psychology

Days of Coal in Calgary, Canada

Hugh Archibald White was born and brought up in Calgary, Canada in the 1940s and 50s. He gave me a run-down on…

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Psychology

Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Finally some proof that if things happen slowly, we’re less likely to notice them. It’s called the shifting baseline syndrome, AKA the…