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Americans love nature but don’t feel empowered to protect it, new research shows

By Jessica Eise, Indiana University

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Climate change has been in the news for more than 40 years. It’s typically covered as a scientific or political issue. However, social scientists like me have found that feelings and values are what drive people toward broad, collective change – not charts, graphs or images.

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