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  • Chapter 1 - The Role of Myths in Our Climate-Energy Challenge

  • Mark Jaccard, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book:
    The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success
    Published online:
    06 February 2020
    Print publication:
    06 February 2020, pp 1-28
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    Humans have flourished as a species because of our ability to accurately assess evidence about the real world, especially risks. Paradoxically, human success has also benefited from our ability to accept myths about the world, especially the when presented by those with whom we most closely align our self-interest. This latter has enabled us to coordinate our actions to outcompete other species and other humans. But it can be dangerous, as a long history of delusion in war and peace has shown. That tendency to delusion presents a problem with our ability to address a risk like human–caused climate change.