Climate change believers are more likely to cooperate with strangers, new research finds

Surprise, surprise – who needed a study for that? That’s also why there are so many very young people in those movements. Young people lack experience (scars on the back) and are still pretty credulous. I was never that naive even when I was younger but compared to the jaded me of today, I was still insufferably impressionable. People that respond to cultish messages must have a strong need to belong. The Millenials are the most congenial, most idealistic generation ever and they are a big generation. They never learned to work hard for anything so drive needs to come from the outside. But it’s blind belief that is responsible for some of the worst calamities humanity knows. 

Climate change believers are more likely to cooperate with strangers, new research finds

Belief in climate change seems to be linked to willingness to cooperate for the common good. This suggests there may be ways to bridge ideological divides to combat complex problems.

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