Denialism, with Caroline Lucas MP & Keith Kahn-Harris
RSA Conversations
English - March 21, 2019 20:13 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsPolitics News News Commentary politics sociology society matthew taylor rsa political science royal society of arts trump coronavirus covid-19 Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
From climate change to vaccines, there’s a worrying tendency in our culture to bury our heads in the sand, and for a growing number of people to turn their backs on the truth. At its most dangerous, denialism can shade into extremism.
Denialism is fundamentally a rejection of reality, but what drives it? What does it say about our psychology that sometimes we need to protect ourselves from what’s really going on? And what should we do about the malign online forces that are driving more people to construct their own truth?
Guests
Caroline Lucas MP
Keith Kahn-Harris, author of Denial: The Unspeakable Truth
Links
Watch on YouTube: We Need to Talk About Climate | Caroline Lucas MP | RSA Replay
Matthew Taylor on Twitter
Ian Leslie on Twitter
Caroline Lucas on Twitter
Keith Kahn-Harris on Twitter
Produced by James Shield.
Brought to you by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).