Minding the Climate by Ann-Christine Duhaime

Author:Ann-Christine Duhaime
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Strategies for Pro-Environmental Shifts

PICTURE NOW THAT WE’VE PAUSED ON OUR JOURNEY, catching our breath at the crest of a hill with a view forward. We’ve had to work some to get here! We’ve learned some neuroscience and neuroanatomy, delved into the workings of the reward system’s role in decision making, evaluated the biophilia hypothesis, studied the brain function / modern life / accelerating consumption interaction, analyzed which behaviors add most to carbon emissions, and acquired some knowledge of tools used for difficult behavior change. Now, finally, we’re peering ahead from our “savannah view” overlook, straight into our future with increasing climate change. How do we use what we’ve learned to move forward?

In this chapter, we’ll survey what strategies have been tried in order to change attitudes and behavior specifically relevant to climate change and environmental decline. We will start to assess whether the knowledge we’ve gained thus far on our journey, along with what others who have worked in this arena have learned, helps us more effectively change our behavior and move us on to a better path.

The first step toward effective behavior change is to understand that the nature of the problem is different from a tangible challenge like how best to cross a river, or even “invisible threat” challenges like how to curtail a pandemic. In the scope of problems one might tackle, climate change falls into another category altogether. Let’s next look at how this has come to be understood, and what strategies have evolved to respond.

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