Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject climate action measures
to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying
profound climate-cultural differences Sarah Kessler offers an explanation to this issue and
shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritise climate
action should be reconsidered. She uncovers climate-cultural variations in (implicit and
explicit) denial of climate change and thus challenges existing approaches that treat the
German public as a unified entity waiting to be activated by the right kind of rationally
convincing information.
