Are we overrating the negative and missing the good stuff that’s actually happening? Cognitive scientist Ed Anderson, PhD., thinks we aren’t thinking clearly about climate change. According to Ed, we are missing the points – the data points – that can accurately describe the state of the world and what we can do about it. Instead we tend to respond to story, conflict, and drama with fears and anxieties that may paralyze us and cause us mental and emotional harm. The FACTS can empower us and demonstrate that hope and positivity are realistic attitudes even as we work to make seemingly dire circumstances better.

Join Whidbey Climate ACTION’s Island Conversations October 3rd, and explore whether the DATA support the gloom and doom we may feel, or instead point to local and global action and progress toward solving our climate crisis. 

Come challenge your own thinking, and share your ideas and strategies for effective and uplifting climate action!

Edwin Anderson, PhD, MBA, brings a lifetime of study and reflection to his exploration of how thinking works and doesn’t work, and how we respond to climate change, the most important problem facing the world today and into the future. 

Ed studied cognitive psychology at the University of Washington with an emphasis on “Human Learning, Memory, and Decision-making.” His training as a cognitive scientist with a focus on mathematical psychology, on quantitative analysis in business school, and his work as a computer programmer and teacher 

have given him extraordinary tools to interpret climate change information. 

Lately Ed has been applying his understanding of cognitive psychology to (Theoretical) Life Coaching, thinking about climate change (scary stuff) and writing a book about ethics. He says it will be a “good” book.