RE # 37, GW actions have many many other
immediate & future benefits: they prevent /
reduce many other environmental
harms (local air pollution, acid rain, ground & water pollution, etc.), they are good for the health (e.g., cycling & walking), they
reduce crime (cycling, walking), they
reduce our implication in foreign conflicts & tax money to protect oil supplies, they save money without lowering productivity (even increasing it), they save businesses from folding & households from going into hock.
Psychologists have an ethical obligation to take
immediate steps to minimize the psychological
harm associated with climate change, to help to
reduce global disparities in climate impacts, and to continually improve their climate - related interventions...