{"id":7393,"date":"2018-09-07T20:13:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7393"},"modified":"2018-09-07T20:13:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T03:13:28","slug":"how-can-we-avoid-climate-avoidance-scientific-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7393","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Avoid Climate Avoidance? | Scientific American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Unfortunately, many of us have been unable to alter the climate avoidance habits we\u2019ve fallen into. We have developed what Charles Duhigg calls a\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/charlesduhigg.com\/the-power-of-habit\/\">habit loop<\/a>. For climate change it goes something like this:\u00c2\u00a0<em>Climate change&gt;It\u2019s too big&gt;I can\u2019t do anything about it&gt;I\u2019m not going to talk\/think about it<\/em>. By avoiding the topic, we avoid the anxiety. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/how-can-we-avoid-climate-avoidance\/\">How Can We Avoid Climate Avoidance? | Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Unfortunately, many of us have been unable to alter the climate avoidance habits we\u2019ve fallen into. We have developed what Charles Duhigg calls a\u00c2\u00a0habit loop. For climate change it goes something like this:\u00c2\u00a0Climate change&gt;It\u2019s too big&gt;I can\u2019t do anything about it&gt;I\u2019m not going to talk\/think about it. By avoiding the topic, we avoid the anxiety. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7394,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions\/7394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}