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Making climate change feel psychologically closer to people

Original: # psychology # psy Reducing the psychological distance of climate impacts by emphasising how climate consequences, such

Climate communication researchers are highlighting a psychology-based approach that reduces the perceived distance of climate impacts. The idea is to emphasise how consequences like natural disasters affect people close to home and in the near future, rather than distant places and far-off times. The argument is that climate change feels more urgent when it is framed as personal and immediate rather than abstract and remote.

Why now: People are discussing how framing climate impacts as local and immediate can strengthen public engagement and urgency.

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• # psychology # psy Reducing the psychological distance of climate impacts by emphasising how climate consequences, such as natural disasters, impact people close to home (reducing geographic distance), in the present or near future (reducing temporal distance), and how those… · Snoro · 2

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