Young people increasingly report feelings of climate anxiety and environmental pessimism. There is a growing sense of climate doom. Yet the evidence points towards environmental progress – from air and water quality to increases in biodiversity, there is every reason to be optimistic about the environmental future. Why then is there such a disparate disconnect between the environmental evidence and people’s pessimistic attitude?
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Dominic (Nick) Parker is the Ilene and Morton Harris Senior Fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution and the Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has won several awards for research and teaching. He is a senior fellow at the Property Environment Research Center and a regular lecturer for the Ronald Coase Institute and the Elinor Ostrom Workshop.
Check out more from Dominic Parker:
Watch the entire Renewing Indigenous Economies series from Dominic Parker and Terry Anderson here: https://www.policyed.org/indigenous-econ
Watch “Nonuse Rights: An Innovative Way to Conserve Natural Resources” featuring Dominic Parker here: https://www.policyed.org/intellections/innovative-way-conserve-natural-resources/video
Read the Q&A with Dominic Parker on the untapped potential renewable energy on tribal lands here: https://tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/energy/14873-q-a-professor-dominic-parker-on-why-tribal-lands-strong-renewable-energy-potential-remains-untapped
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