Shankar Vedantam when on vacation to Alaska recently and realized how people think about climate change and decided to a podcast about why its hard to make peop

Shankar Vedantam when on vacation to Alaska recently and realized how people think about climate change and decided to a podcast about why its hard to make people aware of it. [1] Basically, its in the future, its complicated, its costly if I recall correctly and our brains will turn off those kinds of things so its a trifecta of the worst characteristics if you want people to pay attention. [1] http://www.npr.org/2016/11/08/501073160/climate-change-the-forgotten-issue-of-this-years-election http://www.npr.org/2016/11/08/501073160/climate-change-the-f...