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Why can’t we really care about climate change?

Johannes Urpelainen (Columbia) and Llewelyn Hughes (George Washington): The Domestic Political Economy of Climate Change. Tomasz Lachowski (Lodz): Climate Change and Transitional Justice: Towards the Pursuit of Justice for Climate Change Victims. Anthony E. Chavez (Northern Kentucky): A Napoleonic Approach to Climate Change: The Geoengineering Branch. Jesse Reynolds (Tilburg): The International Regulation of Climate Engineering: Lessons from Nuclear Power. Timothy Meyer (Georgia): The Role of Science in Adducing Evidence of Climate Change. Connie Roser-Renouf, Neil Stenhouse, Justin Rolfe-Redding, and Edward W. Maibach (George Mason) and Anthony Leiserowitz (Yale): Engaging Diverse Audiences with Climate Change: Message Strategies for Global Warming's Six Americas. Why can't we really care about climate change? Ryan Bradley interviews McKenzie Funk, author of Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming. From CJR, can a star-studded documentary series make people care about climate change? Alexis Sobel Fitts wants to know. We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people's deaths — it's time to punish the climate-change liars. A star in a bottle: An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe — but time is running out. Is the solution to climate change in Vancouver? Jeff Spross investigates. Charles C. Mann on how renewables aren’t enough — clean coal is the future. Inspired by “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”, Bill McKibben brings the scary numbers behind climate change and climate chaos to the economics classroom.