Living in denial by Kari Mari Norgaard was a very intriguing book concerning the emotions concerning climate change. I conducted four interviews trying to learn about their emotions and concerns toward to environment. My finding are all very different and interesting in the fact that they are so much like the book and so different at the same time. I categorized my finding by eight themes: fear, helplessness, guilt, not knowing, not caring, surface acting, all is well, and political alienation.
The first theme I am going to introduce is fear. During my interviews I saw an abundance of underlining fear. Me myself have even had this fear that most my interviewees have. I noticed this fear when asking Tyler if the media influences the way people …show more content…
The main guilt I saw came from everyday things that are socially normal but have an impact on the environment. Joey’s guilt came from driving his car all the time. He says one thing that he wants to change about his life to better the environment is that he wants to use his car less. “Per capita US carbon emissions are among the highest world wide.”(194) “Students remark with emphasis on the overwhelming nature of the guilt that comes from being unable to escape particularly in social norms that have led to the nations high emissions.” Tyler guilt came from his want to consume meat products. He feels passionate and with one with nature when he is out hunting for his own food. He says “I still get sad every time I kill.” Mercedes guilt comes from simply not being educations more about climate change, Unlike Michael who has no guilt what so ever about climate change.
I asked Mercedes if there was something she felt she could do to help this cause and she replied “ something I would change is how educated I am on this issue.” I think Mercedes and Michael showed that education about climate change in the United States is very poor in some states. I thought this was peculiar because Mercedes and Michael both are form my home state Oklahoma. I asked Michael if he knew anything about climate change and he replied, “ in high school there was a science class I took and we talked about how global warming was bad but I never paid
The first theme I am going to introduce is fear. During my interviews I saw an abundance of underlining fear. Me myself have even had this fear that most my interviewees have. I noticed this fear when asking Tyler if the media influences the way people …show more content…
The main guilt I saw came from everyday things that are socially normal but have an impact on the environment. Joey’s guilt came from driving his car all the time. He says one thing that he wants to change about his life to better the environment is that he wants to use his car less. “Per capita US carbon emissions are among the highest world wide.”(194) “Students remark with emphasis on the overwhelming nature of the guilt that comes from being unable to escape particularly in social norms that have led to the nations high emissions.” Tyler guilt came from his want to consume meat products. He feels passionate and with one with nature when he is out hunting for his own food. He says “I still get sad every time I kill.” Mercedes guilt comes from simply not being educations more about climate change, Unlike Michael who has no guilt what so ever about climate change.
I asked Mercedes if there was something she felt she could do to help this cause and she replied “ something I would change is how educated I am on this issue.” I think Mercedes and Michael showed that education about climate change in the United States is very poor in some states. I thought this was peculiar because Mercedes and Michael both are form my home state Oklahoma. I asked Michael if he knew anything about climate change and he replied, “ in high school there was a science class I took and we talked about how global warming was bad but I never paid