Posted on 10/01/2018 9:49:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
After smoking and drink-driving, could climate change provide the next big behaviour-change challenge? The latest science tells us that nothing short of rapid, transformative change in our infrastructure and behaviour can prevent the loss of the climate we depend on – yet the message is only now being officially endorsed at the highest scientific level, because the implications are terrifying for today’s political and economic gatekeepers. It means real change, which incumbents always fear.
But are we better at society-wide changes in attitude and behaviour than we give ourselves credit for? And do recent cultural shifts relating to everything from diet to plastics, sexism and attitudes to gender and identity suggest that we might be entering a phase in which more rapid behavioural changes are possible? Research in a new report for a soon-to-be launched international alliance of concerned groups suggests so.
The really big behaviour changes need to be seen first and most among the populations of the high-consuming, wealthier countries. In recent decades most of these have built up experience of how to achieve behaviour change by tackling several public health crises.
After a summer of lethal, extreme weather events, it is also becoming clear that disruption of the climate is a public health issue on a much grander scale than smoking or drink-driving.
Rapid shifts in how we live, work and run the economy have to be made. We should be optimistic that changing our behaviour – to the extent required – is possible.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Lies built upon lies, gives this freak hope? Must be a progressive.
Soyboy cuck eurotrash. Part of the problem.
I’m more worried about the alien abduction phenomenon. We need to work on cutting that down to size.
“climate change” aligned with “#metoo” ... it figures.
I laughed so hard reading this that I expelled pop thru my nose.
A totally new experience in pain.
Then you need to buy some carbonated credits.
Funny how he's never specific about precisely what needs to change. Well, not funny, perfectly predictable. "Rapid, transformative change in our infrastructure and behavior" could have been more concisely "Socialism now!"
Other examples of successful behaviour change can be found in responses to the HIV/Aids crisis...
Wrong. The behavior is precisely as it was, what changed that crisis was the advent of drugs that made the behavior no longer fatal. When you tell somebody, "Hey, if you have sex with other men without a condom you could die" and he still does it, the behavior hasn't changed.
What the author is gushing over is the enhanced ability of political activists to coerce large numbers of people into behaving the way they want, and his clear intention to employ them. That has a lot of names, but "progress" isn't one of them.
What is this “Pound Me Too” all about?
The climate always changing ,that’s how planet Earth works
Women who haven’t gotten laid in a long time and need some.
How long before some one demands human sacrifice to appease the climate gods?
What a perfect example of just how mentally ill the left truly is. Comparing and combining two big lies; glowbull warming and pound me (too) liars to somehow think one has anything to do with other.
Straight jacket time.
There are times when I can’t quite say whether the left is just crazy, pure evil, or gone completely communist. Likely a combination of all three depending on the time of day.
I was fully expecting to click to read an Onion article.
I think it’s a given that we can’t stop climate change,but to stop human-caused climate change is another matter. Then it becomes only a matter of truth winning out over the fiction of human-caused climate change & those purveyors of it.
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