Culture - Politics - Sustainability
The Power of Defaults and Opt-Out Programs for Sustainable Choices
Promoting sustainable choices is essential for mitigating climate change, but individuals often face decision-making challenges and inertia when it comes to behaviour change. Default options and opt-out programs are effective behavioural strategies that capitalize on human tendencies to influence decision-making and drive sustainable actions. This article explores the concept of defaults and opt-out programs and highlights their role in encouraging sustainable behaviours and reducing carbon emissions.
Overcoming Distance and Temporal Discounting
This article explores the concepts of distance and temporal discounting and presents strategies to overcome these psychological barriers, fostering a sense of urgency and motivating behavior change for carbon emission reduction.
Cognitive Reframing in Climate Change
This article explores the concept of cognitive reframing and its application in promoting climate-conscious mindsets and behaviour change.
Exploring Barriers to Climate Change
Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing global challenges of our time. Addressing this issue requires a deep understanding of the barriers that hinder effective action. This article explores the barriers to addressing climate change by drawing on the framework presented in Peter Singer's influential paper, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality." Singer's ethical argument, originally focused on addressing global poverty and humanitarian crises, provides valuable insights applicable to the challenges of climate change.
A Call to Rethink Traditional Moral Dilemmas
Moral dilemma research plays a crucial role in understanding human ethical decision-making and moral reasoning. However, current research predominantly relies on sacrificial moral dilemmas, which present hypothetical scenarios that involve causing harm to achieve a greater good. This think piece argues for the inclusion of climate change dilemmas in moral dilemma research to address the main issues associated with sacrificial moral dilemmas. By exploring climate change dilemmas, we can foster a more sobering, realistic, and contextually relevant understanding of moral decision-making.
Morality and Climate Change
Explore the moral dimensions behind climate change, examining how utilitarian choices affect climate change progress, its global impact, and our duty to protect the planet.