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Psychological impact of climate change
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Campaign strategy, Climate change, Environment and wellbeing, Green consumerism, Psychological impact of climate change, Psychology of denial, Small steps
The ideology of simple painless steps
10.29.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI’ve spent the last two days at a conference for environmental communicators, Communicate 08. There was a recurrent issue which ran through the whole conference - about the strategies that the environment movement deploys to create change.
We heard disparate inputs from (on the one hand) Tesco’s (’Every Little Helps’ - let’s focus on successes in [...] -
Climate change, Environment and wellbeing, Psychological impact of climate change
Psychological counselling on climate change
Jules Peck just sent me this link to a document produced by the Australian Psychological Society, offering “suggestions for dealing with distressing feelings when learning about environmental problems”.
Although environmental threats are real and can be frightening, remaining in a state of heightened distress is not helpful for ourselves or for others. We generally cope [...] -
Psychological impact of climate change
What makes our species worth saving?
In a piece in this month’s Ecologist, Richard Heinberg reflects on the psychological impacts of an awareness of the impact of climate change.
“Strategy shifts. We move from rehearsing ‘Fifty simple things you can do to save the Earth’ to discussing global triage. As the Great Unraveling proceeds, there may in fact be only one occupation [...] -
Climate change, Connection to nature, Environment and wellbeing, Psychological impact of climate change, Self identity
What does climate change do to our heads?
04.25.08 | Permalink | Comments OffA recent article on Wordchanging:
A small yet growing body of evidence suggests that how people think and feel is being influenced strongly by ecosystem transformation related to climate change and industry-related displacement from the land. These powerful stressors are occurring more frequently around the world.
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Campaign strategy, Environment and wellbeing, Green consumerism, Psychological impact of climate change
Yale’s Gus Speth calls for shift from U.S. consumer capitalism to solve environmental problems
The story may be familiar, but look who’s saying it. Speth was founder of both the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute.
Will shifting from a GDP-driven society help solve the United States’ environmental problems? In his new book, “The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from [...]
Home: Valuing Nature
ValuingNature.org provides a forum for asking: are the successes of today's dominant strategies for creating behavioural change adequate if we are to meet the huge environmental challenges that we face, and might there be alternative approaches? It has been developed as part of WWF-UK's Strategies for Change Project.
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Weathercocks and signposts: The Environment Movement at a Crossroads is a critical re-examination of the assumptions underlying current approaches to motivating environmentally-friendly behaviour.
Simple and Painless? The limitations of spillover in environmental campaigning presents a critical examination of the evidence that urging people to switch to energy-efficient lightbulbs encourages them adopt more ambitious changes.
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"The next revolution - World War III - will be waged inside your head. It will be a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets, not in the forests or even around the scarce resources of the earth, but in newspapers and magazines, on the radio, TV and in ’cyberspace’... It will be a dirty, no-holds-barred propaganda war of competing worldviews and alternative visions of the future. "
Marshall McLuhan, in Culture is Our Business, cited on 'Dennis Pamlin's homepage'
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