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for - communities and individuals - liberalism

from - .book - liberalism and the challenge of climate change - https://hyp.is/NDACig4VEe-ci1Oome4_kw/bafybeibgduwvv4dya4nwez5bcy24z5ya27oisiixpioafnxjjx56jgkv4m.ipfs.localhost:8080/

journal article details - title - Communities and the individual: Beyond the liberal-communitarian divide - date - May 11, 2021 - authors - Volker Kaul

key insight - of all about the venison of individual liberty that modernization had sold is a companion bill of goods on

• for: climate change - individual change, producer-consumer entanglement, big oil, COP28

• for: sustainable consumption, individual change, impact of environmental awareness, Custora
• comment
  • 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

• for: W2W, carbon inequality, leverage point
• quote
  • "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"
• author
  • 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

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

This is exactly what SRG has been advocating for in its bottom-up, rapid whole system change approach.

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.

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/

The "above things" being:

1. Vote for elected officials who prioritize smart climate policy; join climate action or political groups to support pro-climat candidates and non-profits.
2. 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!]
3. Electrify your house. There's a reason California's no longer permitting gas in new construction. Induction has vastly improved!
4. Switch to all-green electricity. See my note on #2.

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.

This is different from apathy; it's more like powerlessness.

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