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Why men are less worried than women about climate change
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- From petro-masculinity to electric trucks: why men disengage from climate action and what might bring them back.
- He decided to trade a life of deployment, fighter jets and cruise missile operations for one of planting trees and sustainability.
- Though he didn't realize it at the time, the seeds for that change of pace and path were sown when he was just nine and watching a mega-fire burn through forest near his home in central Idaho.
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From petro-masculinity to electric trucks: why men disengage from climate action and what might bring them back.
https://p.dw.com/p/5C9qb Burning fossil fuels is causing the planet to heat up. But more women than men seem to care about climate change Image: David Mc New/Getty Images Advertisement Mike Smith had been a US fighter pilot for more than a decade when he took what he describes as a 'hard turn' out of the navy.
He decided to trade a life of deployment, fighter jets and cruise missile operations for one of planting trees and sustainability.
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