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Could climate change fuel the rise of right-wing nationalism?

  • Written by Joshua Conrad Jackson, Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
When people feel threatened, they're more receptive to politicians who espouse xenophobic rhetoric.Trybex/Shutterstock.com

Two trends have defined the past decade and both have been on display at this year’s session of the United Nations General Assembly.

One has been the escalating effects of climate change, which were the focus of the...

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