Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder have found that with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus dominating media coverage in recent weeks and months, large numbers of Americans have turned their attention away from worrying about climate change and the environment to focus on the global pandemic.
“If a threat seems physically distant, far in the future, too abstract or if we are just too distracted to notice it, our perception of risk declines,” senior author Leaf Van Boven, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boulder, told Science Daily. “Climate change is the prototypical example.”
