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Do films such as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth really make any difference to how we think and feel about climate change?

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  1. Geoffrey Beattie is a professor of psychology and a professorial research fellow in the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK,

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