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Within the dominant overarching ‘threat and war’ frame of climate change are nested many specific frames. One of these concerns the public will to know and act on climate change which, itself’ has three broad problem dimensions that both overlap with each other and are partly oppositional. First, there is a perceived problem of communication of climate science which in earlier formulations could be addressed through more effective, targeted dissemination. More recently, however, it has been argued that deliberative processes of engagement between scientific and lay actors are required. Second, there is the nature of multiple perspectives that lead to disagreement on climate change and the question of how such disagreement may be put to the productive use. Third, is the resistance to engaging with disturbing information, except in an abstract way, through social norms of attention that shape what we think and talk about, and which lead to socially organised denial of climate change. Social norms of attention may be seen as placing limiting epistemological boundaries around lived experiences and hence a challenge for the fundamental argument of this book that views them as a positive resource.
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Abbott, D., Wilson, g. (2015). Lived Experience and Engagement on Climate Change. In: The Lived Experience of Climate Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17945-2_7
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