Summary
Contemporary, people live in enormous social network, but they never perceive climate change that is a serious problem. While people do not understand how to solve as the problem occur, they can see the problem that exists in the life. Robert Gifford in his article “The Dragons of Inaction” published by the American Psychological Association (2011) and Cynthia M.Frantz and F.Stephan Mayer in “The Emergency of Climate Change: Why Are We Failing to Take Action” published by the Society for the Psychological Study of Study of Social Issues (2009). Both article discussed psychological barriers that prevent taking action to mitigate climate change, and the both also mentioned the main reason lead climate to lose action is human behaviors that increasing flow greenhouse gases and other environmental damage. …show more content…
Frantz and Mayer (2009) emphasized that optimism is one factor that can lead people to fail to perceive an event like environmental change. Numerous people did not know or didn’t think this is a problem, so they have no action. As for individuals’ perception, people have to understand behavioral control to pursue in problem-focused coping. Similarly, in the other article, Gifford (2011) stated that he mentioned global citizens expert to face environmental conditions in general, but optimistic bias applies to risks from climate change. Also, because of ignorance and uncertainty, people didn’t know that a problem exists and did not know how to deal with this problem. People lack of knowledge about the cause and extent of climate change. In addition, Gifford (2011) also interpreted that many individuals believe they cannot do anything because climate change is a global problem. They perceive that they have a little behavioral control over the
Contemporary, people live in enormous social network, but they never perceive climate change that is a serious problem. While people do not understand how to solve as the problem occur, they can see the problem that exists in the life. Robert Gifford in his article “The Dragons of Inaction” published by the American Psychological Association (2011) and Cynthia M.Frantz and F.Stephan Mayer in “The Emergency of Climate Change: Why Are We Failing to Take Action” published by the Society for the Psychological Study of Study of Social Issues (2009). Both article discussed psychological barriers that prevent taking action to mitigate climate change, and the both also mentioned the main reason lead climate to lose action is human behaviors that increasing flow greenhouse gases and other environmental damage. …show more content…
Frantz and Mayer (2009) emphasized that optimism is one factor that can lead people to fail to perceive an event like environmental change. Numerous people did not know or didn’t think this is a problem, so they have no action. As for individuals’ perception, people have to understand behavioral control to pursue in problem-focused coping. Similarly, in the other article, Gifford (2011) stated that he mentioned global citizens expert to face environmental conditions in general, but optimistic bias applies to risks from climate change. Also, because of ignorance and uncertainty, people didn’t know that a problem exists and did not know how to deal with this problem. People lack of knowledge about the cause and extent of climate change. In addition, Gifford (2011) also interpreted that many individuals believe they cannot do anything because climate change is a global problem. They perceive that they have a little behavioral control over the