How We Think and Behave

This quote from early psychologist Wilhelm Reich is the reason that the material here on the 2GreenEnergy blog has transitioned over the years from science/technology to politics.  At this point, the impediment to accepting renewable energy and climate change mitigation strategies more generally has very little to do with facts and everything to do with, as he puts it, “feelings and beliefs.”

Of course, I doubt that these posts, which I hope to be emotionally evocative, change too many people’s ways of thinking.  Recent studies in neurology show that people’s minds are “wired” in ways that are deeply resistant to change.

If you are, for example, a Trump supporter, there is nothing I can possibly write that will make you wake up tomorrow wanting to save people you don’t know from droughts, wildfires, floods, and loss of land mass.

To be fair, there are no news headlines that are going to make me think that Mexicans are coming for our jobs and that a wall on the southern border is a good idea.