Contemplating climate change: mental models and human reasoning

Global climate change policy has failed us all, but what is the reasoning that underlies this failure?

Why are some people more disposed to reflect on confounding issues like climate change, recognise the danger, seek a solution, and act accordingly, more than others?

This text is concerned with how we think and act in response to climate change.

In particular, faced with deep uncertainty and the multifaceted complexities that characterise the climate change conundrum, how the various actors and institutions involved in the policymaking process make decisions that both aid and impede in the design and implementation of climate change policy.