Barriers to Net Zero - learned helplessness

21 June 2023

Part 9 of our Barriers to Net Zero blog series - learned helplessness. The complexity of guidance and scientific language enacts a deep routed human response of learned helplessness creating inaction. If we understand that learned helplessness is a triggered response to complexity and the fear of getting things wrong born from early experiences with science at school, experts, observers, and standard bearers for science need to understand that they are part of the problem of inaction.

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