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11/28/2007: "Human beings are in denial"

In Monday's speech Running adapted Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's "Five Stages of Grief" model to apply to climate change.

(He listed those stages as) those in denial (the earth isn't getting warmer, and if it is it isn't our fault); those who are angry; those who are bargaining ("It was always too cold in Montana, anyway," Running quipped); those who are depressed; and those who have come to accept climate change as a fact.

Running would like to see more people moving to the acceptance or, as he called it, the "let's get to work" phase.

[ Why assume that these five stages of denial apply only to global warming, when other difficult truths are also problematic? ]

http://www.newwest.net/city/article/nobel_winner_lectures_on_the_five_stages_of_climate_grief/C8/L8/