id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-017479-s4e47bwx Pulcini, Elena Spectators and Victims: Between Denial and Projection 2012-03-16 .txt text/plain 10779 435 50 52 But while denial appears, as we have seen, effective in explaining the lack of perception and the anaesthetizing of fear in the face of the nuclear threat, selfdeception can prove pertinent in order to understand the complex emotional response that individuals give to the other global risk already brought up above: that is, the twofold environmental risk of global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer, which by no means seems to generate that mobilization of the whole of humankind which it would instead -urgently -require. 66 However, what I would like to stress, to go back to Anders's diagnosis, is the fact that -in this case at least -this worrying reversal originates in the pathologies of feeling and the denial of fear, which prevent individuals from recognizing their paradoxical condition of spectators and victims at the same time. ./cache/cord-017479-s4e47bwx.txt ./txt/cord-017479-s4e47bwx.txt