There are many different ways to respond to this week's report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fear being one of them
"Humanity is on thin ice and that ice is melting fast.""More poor people die. In every heatwave that we have, thousands of people die."
It is a summary of all the findings on the causes, solutions and effects of climate change revealed by them in the last five years. Sander van der Linden is a professor of Social Psychology at Cambridge University who specialises in our response to news. He believes there is a risk of people being paralysed by fear.
"Worry can be a motivator. If you're sufficiently worried, you'll do your homework and then you try to take corrective action. And I think we want the same thing on climate change," he says.
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