Abstract
Nations around the world have pledged for decades to address climate change, but no significant actions have been taken. This is hardly surprising, since there is no precedent in human history for such cooperation. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, not fall. I argue that optimism about international action is irrational, and fits well in its irrationality with psychological research on that cognitive bias. Irrational optimism about international cooperation is dangerous because it will reduce support for large-scale funding to overcome the present inability of renewable technologies to replace fossil fuels at scale, probably the only plausible path to slowing climate change.
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