The Art of the Excuse

The holiday flight to Bali, the steak in the restaurant, the coffee from the capsule machine. We’d like to act differently, but often it simply doesn’t work out. All of us have a weak self, not only when it comes to the environment.

The psychologist Thomas Brudermann knows all about the countless excuses we have at hand when climate protection becomes too taxing and inconvenient. In his book, he highlights human decision-making behaviour and focuses on those psychological and behavioural economic effects that lie behind our excuses. An in-depth and yet entertaining insight into the field of climate psychology.