Here’s a story (an allegory?) for climate/nature communicators, about the Yale psychologist Howard Leventhal's work in the 1960s
He was interested in how fear affected people’s attitudes and behaviour, so he conducted an experiment
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You can either be for stopping climate breakdown, or for boosting oil and gas production. Not both.
Boosting oil and gas may improve re-election prospects (and it's tragic this is still the case btw) but at the cost of our planet. If we do not ramp down, we will collapse.
O best beloved, if you are doomscrolling Twitter today, ask yourself if there is anything you can personally do.
If there is, do it. If there isn’t, remember that anxiety is not activism. Your misery does not improve the world a single iota.
Are you paralyzed about what to do RIGHT NOW to support trans kids in Texas??
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Out of curiosity…
On a scale of 1 - 10, where 1 is “no pressure” and 10 is “a lot of pressure:” how much pressure do you feel when someone asks for something, then says “no pressure”?
The printer industry has always surfed the leading edge of dystopian business practices, pioneering the most disgusting, deceptive tactics for ripping off customers by locking them into buying half-full ink cartridges at $12,000/gallon. 1/