Selective inattention reframes population growth as decline and erases it as a problem

Evidence

Population growth is an escalating global problem, not a disappearing one. Through selective inattention to population demographics, soaring population growth disappears as a problem and population decline is elevated to an alarming one that “haunts our future” (Howe & Jackson, 2007). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2574

Categorization

• XREF: This is clear moral disengagement via selective inattention, echoing Bandura’s earlier chapters on euphemistic labeling and diffusion of responsibility as disengagement mechanisms. — connects to: Climate inattention is a collective failure to dedicate attentional resources — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 520