- Mar 2024
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www.phenomenalworld.org www.phenomenalworld.org
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If acting on climate change means sacrificing what little freedom I have left, then what value is that to me?
key insight - of all about the venison of individual liberty that modernization had sold is a companion bill of goods on
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- Oct 2023
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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“It’s the consumer who contributes to increasing CO2 emissions, not the producer.”
- for: climate change - individual change, producer-consumer entanglement, big oil, COP28
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- Aug 2023
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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The graph shows that ecological awareness does in fact lowers the footprint of high income consumption. They may shift from meat to plant based diet or fly less. Yet, they still consume more, fly more, travel more, buy more items, larger homes, larger cars etc. etc. This problem is why policies that promote circular-responsible-organic-whatever products will not deliver to targets.
- for: sustainable consumption, individual change, impact of environmental awareness, Custora
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- individual consumption choices have an impact, but far from enough
- system change is also required on policy and structural level
- voluntarily reducing our income could be one way
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- Jul 2023
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people who are wealthy contribute the most to causing climate change, they are unfortunately also in the most ideal position to help us mitigate climate change.
- for: W2W, carbon inequality, leverage point
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- "people who are wealthy contribute the most to causing climate change,
- they are unfortunately also in the most ideal position to help us mitigate climate change"
- "people who are wealthy contribute the most to causing climate change,
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- Kristian Nielsen
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00900-y
- The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions
- Kristian Nielsen
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- Aug 2022
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www.medrxiv.org www.medrxiv.org
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Maier, B. F., Wiedermann, M., Burdinski, A., Klamser, P., Jenny, M. A., Betsch, C., & Brockmann, D. (2021). Germany’s current COVID-19 crisis is mainly driven by the unvaccinated (p. 2021.11.24.21266831). https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.24.21266831
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- Apr 2022
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So the bottom line of the IPCC’s first look at individual action is this: By reexamining the way we live, move around, and eat, the world has the potential to slash up to 70 percent of end-use emissions by 2050. Change is even possible in the very short term. And while hard data and peer-reviewed science show individual actions do matter, ultimately, the world has to think beyond the individual carbon footprint in addressing the climate crisis, including thinking about how individuals can bring about structural change.
This is exactly what SRG has been advocating for in its bottom-up, rapid whole system change approach.
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- Nov 2021
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www.annualreviews.org www.annualreviews.org
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Ultimately, high-carbon lifestyles arise from both individual actions and systemic conditions of everyday life.
Individual behavior and systemic conditions are entangled. We cannot say one is not important but the other is. System transformation is required on both sides simultaneously. Positive changes in one will create pressure in the other to change. We can leverage these positive feedback effects for system transformation.
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- Mar 2021
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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Hackathon: Climate denial and COVID-19 misinformation: birds of a feather? : BehSciAsk. (n.d.). Reddit. Retrieved 6 March 2021, from https://www.reddit.com/r/BehSciAsk/comments/jjk00r/hackathon_climate_denial_and_covid19/
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- Sep 2020
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erikareinhardt.com erikareinhardt.com
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If everyone did all of the above things, they would have the personal infrastructure in place to enable their lives to become zero-emissions. But the above changes only cover 45% of average American emissions—so what gives? The remaining 55% of emissions come indirectly from the goods, services, and food we buy. The only way we’ll get to a zero-carbon world is for each of those industries to adopt new technology and change their processes to be emissions-free, or be replaced with a zero-emissions alternative. That’s why your first action is voting to make sure that policies and incentives are put in place to accelerate the overall transition.
The "above things" being:
- Vote for elected officials who prioritize smart climate policy; join climate action or political groups to support pro-climat candidates and non-profits.
- Use only electric vehicles. Your next car [and this right here is a measure of how very car-dependent Americans as a whole are] needs to be electric. [AND you also need to press your power companies and government for clean electricity; lots of electricity comes from coal!]
- Electrify your house. There's a reason California's no longer permitting gas in new construction. Induction has vastly improved!
- Switch to all-green electricity. See my note on #2.
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Basso, Frederic, and Dario Krpan. ‘Utopian Impulse: An Individual-Differences Approach to Transformative Social Change’, 21 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nvm2j.
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- Aug 2020
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meta.stackexchange.com meta.stackexchange.com
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FWIW, I would have raised it earlier if I thought it would have made a difference.
This is different from apathy; it's more like powerlessness.
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- Jun 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Yamagata, M., Teraguchi, T., & Miura, A. (2020, May 5). The Relationship between Infection-Avoidance Tendencies and Exclusionary Attitudes toward Foreigners: A Panel Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Japan. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x5emj
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