Artigo Científico

Resumo: Climate change poses an existential threat to the world’s ecosystems and to human societies. Inorder to slow and eventually halt global warming, governments, firms, and civil society mustenact radical structural change in order to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use. Cynicism, pessimism, and defeatism are currently prevalent, however, and threaten toundermine the cooperative spirit needed to achieve a low carbon economy. Climate change denial has played a major role in feeding these destructive attitudes. © 2023 The Authors