In Episode 7 we are keeping with the theme of the mind and climate change, but turning directly to the insights available from the mind sciences: neuroscience and psychology. Discussing these issues, we are in the excellent company of Kris de Meyer, who is a neuroscientist and Director of University College London’s Climate Action Unit. In this role, Kris has led numerous important collaborations with policymakers and stakeholders, including the exceptional programme of the Net Zero Innovation Project which funds and supports collaborations between UK local authorities and universities. Combining insights from these mind sciences with careful attention to how programmes of climate science communication and policy action are actually run, and hence to many of the stand-out problems they habitually run into, Kris and colleagues have developed whole programmes leading the way in getting those working on climate to take seriously what we know about the limitations and capacities of the most fundamental instrument of all, our minds. Join us in another wide-ranging and fascinating discussion of these key lessons from and for the mind sciences as we face the challenges of the Anthropocene, including: the complex and potentially self-defeating use of appeals to fear; the ways in which polarized views are formed; the structures and career incentives of science; and much more…