Recently I read the book, The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace by Shaunti Feldhahn (1). The book is based on seven years of intense research, interviews and surveys with more than 3,000 men. It reveals the unfiltered, private thoughts and expectations of men in the workplace. I read this book to help me understand why some men respond so differently to the climate crisis compared to me. (I am a woman). From it I gleaned four things we might need to keep in mind when thinking about men and their response to the climate crisis. 

1) Men compartmentalize much easier than females. Men can deal with one thing at a time, do it extremely well and they get annoyed when they have to deviate from this line of thinking. But the climate crisis is intimately connected to many other planetary crises including  water, food,  ocean depletion, over population, peak oil and peak soil. The climate crisis right now is affecting people in developing countries, on fixed incomes and Indigenous Peoples. If you are a compartmentalized thinker I would guess it would be easier to deal with the thought of our grandchildren inheriting a collapsed climate too.

2) Men can separate business from personal. "It's just business," thinking means that some men may be able to make executive decisions that will impact some people negatively but not be nearly as affected as a woman.