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By William Rees – Climate change isn’t the problem, so what is?

By William Rees – Climate change isn’t the problem, so what is?   Thanks to friend and retired blogger Gail Zawacki at Wit’s End for bringing this excellent new talk by professor William Rees to my attention. Rees discusses our severe state of ecological overshoot and the behaviors that prevent us from taking any useful action to make the future […]

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Encouraging Energy Conservation: Is Less More?

Encouraging Energy Conservation: Is Less More? Many messages about saving energy use multiple arguments to make their case. But our research suggests that may actually be the wrong approach. Is messaging about consumers’ home-energy habits important in climate change mitigation? Many organizations say yes, and are conducting outreach to raise awareness and persuade individuals to […]

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Culture and Behavior May Clue Climate Change Response

Culture and Behavior May Clue Climate Change Response Photo Source Dan Costin | CC BY 2.0 Behavior acculturated to ancestral norms, originally necessitated by occupation, is the focus of a new study in China with interesting ramifications for climate change.  In general, farming requires more stable relationships than, say, herding with the constant movement of animals.  Now the […]

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The Stupid Things People Do When Their Society Breaks Down

The Stupid Things People Do When Their Society Breaks Down A frequent mistake that many people make when considering the concept of social or economic collapse is to imagine how people and groups will behave tomorrow based on how people behave today. It is, though, extremely difficult to predict human behavior in the face of […]

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Shrinking the Technosphere, Part II

Shrinking the Technosphere, Part II [Part I] Political technologies have three main goals: 1. Changing the rules of the game between participants in the political process. 2. Introducing into the mass consciousness new concepts, values, opinions and convictions. 3. Direct manipulation of human behavior through mass media and administrative methods. Political technologies pursue these tactical […]

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