Dr Dan Thorman

Environmental Psychologist at @CAST_Centre
Post-Growth / Climate Change / Ambient Techno

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[Nick Langridge @nicklangridge]

Reducing energy demand is the only way to eliminate fossil fuels.

And the burden has to be borne by the wealthy: reducing the energy directed towards the production of unnecessary, luxury goods.

That is degrowth in a nutshell.

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[Dr Dan Thorman @DanThorman]

@xenogothic do you know if there will be more screenings around the UK? Bristol perhaps!? : )

[Dr Dan Thorman @DanThorman]

@truthfairylook @xenogothic @culturedbuoy its showing at the barbican next month...but also looking for an online stream or bristol screening?

[CAST @CAST_Centre]

The #CASTShowcase is now underway 🙌

We kicked off the day by hearing from our CAST Director @lwhitmarsh reflecting on 5 years of research on climate action.

“The more you bring people into decision making about climate change, the more effective it’s likely to be.”

[CAST @CAST_Centre]

The @WNZ2035 Group is actively seeking evidence (deadline Nov 30) for its 4th challenge on digital and transport: How could people and places be connected across Wales by 2035? 🚆

Share your views and submit evidence: https://t.co/ITmqYmcgpG

[CAST @CAST_Centre]

Last month, CAST's @DanThorman, @wouterpoortinga & @lkathe drafted a response to the Prime Minister's 'new approach' to #NetZero, and how it will impact the UK meeting its climate targets🎯

"We need more engagement and stronger action, and we need it now", says @DanThorman.

[Dr Dan Thorman @DanThorman]

Share your views and submit evidence for the challenge: https://t.co/Z9VFZbIBsx… (The deadline for submissions is 30 Nov 2023)

[Dr Dan Thorman @DanThorman]

I'm helping to co-ordinate @WNZ2035 and there is a call for evidence! Please check it out if you're placed to contribute!

[CAST @CAST_Centre]

The @WNZ2035 Group's 4th challenge is now live and is actively seeking evidence on digital and transport: How could people and places be connected across Wales by 2035? 🚆

Our CAST Director @lwhitmarsh, a member of the group, shares her views on why to get involved:

[Ellie Ratcliffe @el_ratcliffe]

Last week, several of us submitted a Letter to the Editors of @JEnvPsych regarding editorial policy on qualitative research. Our letter is available as a preprint here. On the importance of qualitative research in environmental psychology: https://t.co/I2Rjlktvvp. Please share!

[CAST @CAST_Centre]

Our latest CAST briefing on motivating #lowcarbon behaviours in the workforce - based on our work with @CornwallCouncil - is now live on our website 🎉

Read the briefing: https://t.co/b7pkadel7o

[Dr Dan Thorman @DanThorman]

Response to the Net Zero Scrapheap that i wrote with colleagues @wouterpoortinga and @lkathe for the @CAST_Centre…no shortage of scares from the conservative party atm, but this really does burn the future 🔥🌍

[CAST @CAST_Centre]

In light of the Prime Minister's recent announcement on the Government's 'new approach' to #NetZero, we drafted our own response in a blog post and discussed how this will impact the UK meeting its climate targets 👇🎯

Read the blog post: https://t.co/TgcVmLaAGv

[Dr Stuart Capstick @StuartBCapstick]

Most policymakers pretend we can cut emissions fast enough without any social or lifestyle change. Our @CAST_Centre paper led by @CaroVerfuerth says maybe it's time to stop pretending, involve people in decision-making and bring about change in fair and transparent way.

[National Trust @nationaltrust]

After a summer of wildfire and floods, and records broken here in the UK, yesterday's announcement is barely fathomable. Future generations will ask why, after these stark signs, the government would put this country’s global leadership on climate change into reverse.

Fairness should absolutely be central to any change, but it is not fair that our children will have their future blighted by the poor decisions made today. It isn't fair that businesses that have invested heavily in pioneering green technologies and the jobs of tomorrow will have to put their plans on ice, nor that changes in policy endanger our much-loved cultural heritage and natural environment, undermining everything from food security to our health and wellbeing. And it isn't fair that the poorest in our society will lose out most in the future.

Progress towards Net Zero must be sustained, not kicked down the road for political expediency.

We urge the Prime Minister and his Government to rethink.

[Dr Dan Thorman @DanThorman]

offshoring manufacture and production to cater to obscene levels of consumption bodges the figures

[Simon Oldridge @SiOldridge]

So now Sunak's saying we're world leading with a 68% emissions reduction target. Does he really not know that UK has offshored more manufacturing than almost any other country? So whilst our territorial emissions are down 48%, our total footprint is down by <1% per year.
Does think those emissions are no longer our responsibility just because we've moved them?

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Parliament must be recalled and should sit tomorrow- Sunak’s blatant and cowardly sidelining of Parliament cannot be allowed to stand

[Dr Dan Thorman @DanThorman]

@CarolineLucas HELP

[CAST @CAST_Centre]

Our CAST Director @lwhitmarsh shares her concerns about the expected #NetZero announcement later today 👇

"The prime minister’s announcement will only serve to diminish public faith that we can avoid the devastating impacts of climate change that we are increasingly seeing."

[Dr Dan Thorman @DanThorman]

also - disappointing to see the 'green growth' myth is still being perpetuated by so many key players in the fight against climate catastrophe @Rebecca_Newsom @GreenpeaceUK @lordstern1 @GRI_LSE

[Dr Dan Thorman @DanThorman]

Is it another U-turn or the continuation of a spiralling maelstrom towards a vision of the future where the foreboding sense of doom we experience now will be nothing but a silver lining of a long-since passed cloud in the skies over the country today 🌧️https://t.co/pcF8dmfY0m