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Does Fear Stop Us From Acting On Climate Change?

KUOW | By Matt Martin
Published February 18, 2016 at 1:58 PM AKST
his is a shot from 2008 referred to many as Surprise Glacier during a trip to Alaska to catalog glacial melt and other climate-related research.
Flickr Photo/U.S. Geological Survey (Public Domain)/https://flic.kr/p/nwi9ox
This is a shot from 2008; referred to by many as Surprise Glacier during a trip to Alaska to catalog glacial melt and other climate-related research.

Bill Radke speaks with Seattle psychologist Dr. Laura Brown about how we should deal with the trauma of climate change and how fear shuts us down. 
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