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Red Tape and Vitality: A Group Action Project Reflection

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The group action project, encouraging us to embrace agency in the Anthropocene, demanded we engage the greater community in some fashion. While free to shape the project as we pleased, we were asked to incorporate contemplative practices into our work. In groups of about four people, we had nearly a month to complete our projects. For the assignment, I worked… Read more »

Polling Data and Motivated Reasoning

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A majority of Americans (70%) believe global warming is happening. A majority of Americans believe that global warming will harm people I the United States (58%). A minority of Americans believe global warming will harm them personally (40%). Moreover, half of Americans believe global warming will affect them little/not at all. How do we square this circle? Is it simply… Read more »