2007: The New York Times Andrew C. Revkin’s comments on Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming Does Not Scare Us (Yet) by Elke U. Weber from the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University. Weber “listed various reasons why people fail to absorb messages on long-term risks. The reasons include established sociological concepts like the “finite pool of worry” hypothesis, in which daily struggles swamp even life-threatening long-term risks (not finding the time to replace worn tires) and “single-action bias,” exemplified by a 1991 study finding that radiologists looking for tumors or other problems in X-rays tend to halt their search after discovering the first one, leaving additional problems undetected” (NY Times, 2007).
Reference: New York Times. 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/science/earth/04comm.html
Read the Columbia University report http://www.cred.columbia.edu/pdfs/publications/Weber_ClimaticChange2006.pdf
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