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Climate Action: Fear Hasn’t Motivated People, so Let’s Get Them Excited

By Adam Met — 2020

To create excitement for the climate movement, we must create actionable incentives.

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Prosocial World

Thinking more explicitly about cultural catalysis can help to accomplish in years what otherwise would require decades or not take place at all. As we experiment with cultural catalysis, we need to make it fast and benign rather than fast and pathological for the common good.

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David Sloan Wilson
2021
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What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?

Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for “Deep Adaptation”—that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change.

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Jeremy Lent
2019
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Why Bother?

Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer.

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Michael Pollan
2008
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Going Vegan: Can Switching to a Plant-Based Diet Really Save the Planet?

If politicians are serious about change, they need to incentivise it, say scientists and writers

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Sarah Marsh
2021
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Technology and the Age of Broken Tablets

We need to think about the values we treasure, the world we create and the tablets we are writing. The Torah must be both adopted and adapted in this new world. We stand again at Sinai, and the revelation, dark or bright, is in our hands.

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David Wolpe
2017
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Why My 8,000 Mile Walk to Meet Martin Luther King Was Worth It

Satish Kumar walked 8,000 miles to spread the message of peace around the world. Here he gives his recipe for a better world.

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Satish Kumar
2014
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Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents for the Last 13,000 Years?

The biggest question that Jared Diamond is asking himself is how to turn the study of history into a science.

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Jared Diamond
1997
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How Wealth Creates Poverty

This equating of money with wealth and wealth with wellbeing is misplaced on multiple counts. Money does not reflect nature’s wealth or people’s wealth, and it definitely fails to measure the wellbeing of society.

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Vandana Shiva
2007
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A New Pact with the Planet

In the wake of the Paris summit, Vandana Shiva suggests a manifesto for sustainability.

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Vandana Shiva
2016
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Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview with Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy discusses politics, the media, activism, and the importance of waking up.

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Dahr Jamail
2017
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