George Marshall (born 1964) is a

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environmental campaigner, communications specialist and writer. He is the founder of Climate Outreach and is a specialist in

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. He is the author of ''Carbon Detox'' (2007) and ''Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change'' (2014). He lives in mid-Wales.

Life and work

Environmental campaigning

From 1988 to 2000, Marshall worked on campaigns for tropical forest conservation and defence of indigenous land rights with the Australian-based Rainforest Information Centre and ''

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in Papua New Guinea. Marshall subsequently worked as international campaigns director for the Rainforest Foundation and the director of the forests campaign for

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USA. In 2004, he co-founded (with Richard Sexton) Climate Outreach, a UK charity that specialises in increasing public engagement in climate-change related issues. He is currently the Director of Projects at Climate Outreach and leads on a range of projects applying the latest research in

Eco-renovation

In 2000, George Marshall took a year's sabbatical to renovate a terrace house for his family as a model low energy retrofit that reduced energy and water use by two thirds. His website on the project won a Millennium Award and led ''

'' to list Marshall as one of their Ten Green Visionaries in 2009.

Research

Marshall has spoken and written extensively on the need to engage new audiences on climate change, especially conservatives and people of religious faith.

Published works

Marshall is the author of ''Carbon Detox'' (Hamlyn Gaia, 2007) on personal action to reduce emissions. This subsequently became the basis of a stand-up one man show. His second book, ''Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change'' (Bloomsbury 2014), explores the underlying social and psychological obstacles to accepting climate change.George Marshall
"Some personal and highly biased ideas for digging our way out of this hole"
last chapter of ''Don't Even Think About It'' (2014), summarising the book (page visited on 26 September 2020). The book has been widely praised and was described by the journalist

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in ''

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'' as "the most important book published on climate change in the past few years".

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Recent published work

Narratives for Sustainable Development in Wales
(2012)
After the floods: communicating climate change around extreme weather
(2014)
Starting a New Conversation on Climate Change with the European Centre-Right
(2015)
A campaigner’s guide to talking with centre-right politicians and MEPs
(2015)

Selected presentations and articles

How to talk to a Climate Change denier
- YouTube video synthesising research for the general public
Why we still don't believe in climate change
- Opinion piece for New Scientist, July 2010
Why we find it so hard to act on climate change
- Yes Magazine,
Why do We Ignore Climate Change
in conversation with Robert Manne {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, George 1964 births Living people British environmentalists British writers Science bloggers 21st-century science writers Climate communication