Well-publicised simple steps like using energy-saving light bulbs may be making it more difficult to prepare people for the bigger changes needed to tackle climate change, argue psychologists
… The psychology of climate change: why we do … 2009 News Climate Change Society Green Living Psychology Take Action manonsofa.jpg … while others change slowly. The report says psychology has already been used by government …
The call to join Extinction Rebellion is a psychological and spiritual call, as much as it is political.
… 18th December 2018 News Extinction Rebellion Psychology Climate Change Protest … combined them with insights taken from depth psychology - insights from the likes of Freud, …
Nonviolent activism is an incredibly powerful means of transforming the world, writes Robert J. Burrowes. But to harness that power, we must understand that it works by inspiring others to join in a just and noble cause, while communicating the actions they can take in their own lives. Its essential modes are thus political and psychological - and victory can result from apparent failure.
… tactician - was because he understood the psychology of nonviolence and how to make it … this is due to the failure to understand the psychology, politics and strategy of …
Climate trauma will impact people the world over - and especially in the global south. We need ecological repair to prevent such harm.
Diagnosing climate trauma Charlie Hertzog Young | 4th November 2021 | Comment Climate Breakdown Mental Health Climate Anxiety Editor’s Picks uni73340_largecomp.jpg Climate trauma will impact people …
In the 1960s psychologist Stanley Milgram tested a cross section of ordinary Americans to see if they’d administer potentially lethal electric shocks to a mild-mannered little man, sitting in an electric chair. The findings stunned the world.
… experiment Tom Stafford | 1st June 2003 News Psychology Disobedience Dissent Americans Beha … perhaps the most important ever performed in psychology. He was interested in ‘the dilemma … hour’s work. In the waiting room of Yale’s psychology department they met, on separate …
Exposing the international failure to investigate, let alone treat, climate-related mental health issues in the Global South.
Minds left behind Charlie Hertzog Young | 18th March 2022 | Comment Mental Health Climate Breakdown Editor’s Picks Ecologist Writers' Fund image-from-rawpixel-id-3372937-original.jpg Exposing the …
You must have noticed the new advertising campaign for Hotmail, 'the new busy'? Screw that, says Tom Hodgkinson, I want the old lazy...
… here is the latest outburst of positive psychology conditioning. Positive psychology is the idea that forced … and uncomplaining workers. Positive psychology is about being cheerful, outgoing …
Largest scientific study of its kind finds climate anxiety affects the daily life and functioning of nearly half of children and young people surveyed globally.
… Hickman, from the University of Bath, Climate Psychology Alliance and co-lead author on the …
The bulk of our motives for buying green are selfish, say psychologists. So would appealing to social positioning help shift behaviours better than moralising?
… Tom Levitt | 4th May 2010 News Green Living Psychology Society Green Consumerism … is as good as worthless NEWS ANALYSIS The psychology of climate change: why we do …
New research reveals how to remain composed and serene in the face of Christmas Eve traffic, weird relations and Brussels sprouts. But Hazel Sillver is dreaming of Christmas in Morocco ... where there is no Christmas.
… good mood. Writing in The Journal of Positive Psychology, Yuna Ferguson, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University, … and Kennon M. Sheldon, Professor of Psychology at the University of Missouri, …
Marketing strategies and product design employed by major tech companies put profit before sustainability.
Marketing, technology and consumerism Liz Lee Reynolds | 26th February 2019 News Marketing Science & Systems 8211477646_5878e4c394_b.jpg Marketing strategies and product design employed by major tech …
Evolutionary psychology demonstrates an innate preference for social learning and 'niche construction' that can help us understand the drive towards direct action and citizen assemblies.
… News Cultural Evolution Extinction Rebellion Psychology Science & Systems … Evolutionary psychology demonstrates an innate preference … every part of the world. As evolutionary psychology has shown over decades, much of our …
Author Clive Hamilton on why we've left it too late to stop climate change, his horror over geoengineering and the urgent need to become citizens rather than consumers
… Levitt | 26th May 2010 Comment Climate Change Psychology Society Politics And Economics … better than moralising? NEWS ANALYSIS The psychology of climate change: why we do …
If we are to build a regenerative culture, ours is not to only jump at deadlines; we must cast out lifelines.
… to salve our desperate itch for optimism. Psychology and spirituality I first wrestled … published in The Ecologist , it tackled the psychology that drives the consumerism that, …
A report published by the IPPR next week will say personal carbon trading may be the next step in tackling climate change
… who has been researching PCT at the School of Psychology, Cardiff University. ‘PCT has the … Personal carbon accounting easy, say RSA The psychology of climate change: why we do nothing …
'Climate disorder is a tangible and immediate threat. It’s time we recognise the material impacts of the ecological crisis on our minds.'
Climate and mental breakdown Charlie Hertzog Young | 21st December 2021 | Comment Climate Breakdown Mental Health Editor’s Picks 2.64204737.jpg 'Climate disorder is a tangible and immediate threat. …
The Conservation Optimism Summit, (taking place on 20th-22nd April), is gathering together some of the biggest names in conservation to share the oft-neglected triumphs. Stories of mass reforestation and renewable technologies might not get a look-in on the front pages, but they constitute a breath of fresh air writes MARCUS NIELD
… speakers from conservation, art, positive psychology, sustainable business, NGOs, and … amid a growing understanding of environmental psychology in recent years. When fears …
Wildlife exists by way of an evolved, synergistic machinery of incidental compassion and 'biological optimism' that is thrown off-balance by human intervention.
… | 20th May 2019 News Nature Animals Wildlife Psychology Thought Leaders … The synergism of physiology, behaviour and psychology in nature variously configures to …
Spontaneity and kindness can become part of the 'machinery of care'.
Humanising the machinery of care Charlie Jones Martin Seager | 18th March 2019 | News Care Healthcare Resurgence & Ecologist under_humanising.jpg Spontaneity and kindness can become part of the …
New study shows three quarters of ‘off road’ SUVs sold in the UK are to people living in our towns and cities.
… had risen by 86 percent in a single year. Psychology What can be done? For one thing, … and ad agencies make extensive use of psychology and psychologists to sell cars. … public, and to the profession and science of psychology, including the avoidance of harm …
Just as climate change deniers leap from scientific uncertainty over the precise impacts of greenhouse gas emissions to certainty of little or no impact at all, so 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' conflate uncertainty of the mortality arising from Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters to certainty of few if any deaths, writes Jim Green. Their position is equally indefensible.
Radiation harm deniers? Pro-nuclear environmentalists and the Chernobyl death toll Dr Jim Green | 7th April 2016 News Nuclear Health Science Radiation WMD Ukraine Belarus doll.jpg Just as climate …