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How to live a long, healthy life? Generally, living a long healthy life, or increasing the chances of living a long healthy life, requires living in a healthy environment. I’m using the term environment in the broadest sense. For example, in a healthy environment, you will find nutritious food to eat, safe water to drink…
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The enemy of reason and nature.
This article is a response to the reply (in quotes) I received from someone about my One Planet #Sustainability article. That article can be read here https://empiricalperspective.home.blog/2023/06/08/one-planet-sustainability/ Or here https://qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/110511036586999020 The reply to my article “Yes. What ideas do you have on how we XR (Extinction Rebellion) Psychologists could promote One Planet development? Always good…
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The unsustainable lifestyles of the successfully wealthy.
Imagine if a government encouraged people to live sustainable lifestyles. This would be in stark contrast to the current neoliberal sociopolitical and socioeconomic paradigm that has encouraged unsustainable lifestyles in the name of economic growth. Ways of living that are based on increasing the amounts of resources society consume (e.g., bigger cars, houses and not…
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One Planet Sustainability
The essay will describe how a population of people (society) can develop a society that is relatively sustainable (e.g., virtually zero Greenhouse Gas emissions). To be clear, this essay is not stating that humans will want to transition toward a sustainable society. In other words, for various personal reasons (psychology. e.g., political & economic ideologies),…
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The greenwashing & greenwashed people.
To relate to this article, you will need to understand the world that was portrayed in the Matrix Sci-Fi movie (the first one). For any readers that haven’t seen the movies I will do my best to describe the fundamentals of the Matrix world. Basically, most humans in the Matrix world were unknowingly plugged into…
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Talented Swift! (But that show can’t go on!)
Readers may think why am I writing about the American pop singer Taylor Swift, since most of my posts are related to ecological sustainability. They may ask what has Taylor Swift got to do with sustainable living? And they’d be right, Taylor Swift has nothing to say or sing about or to do with ecological…
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Living on borrowed time (How to reverse industrial scale ecocide)
Explaining to people that if they enjoy food – they better help to sustain ecology, is the way to motivate climate adaptation. Ecology is a broad scientific subject and the planet’s biosphere is, well, the reality we all live in (apart from the few exceptions of temporary off-Earth astronauts). However, there are some key concepts…
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The gross simplification of the extreme consumerist (that virtue signals climate info)
Generally, ecologists and conservation biologists (the evidence-based approach) are saying we need to use agroecological solutions to mitigate climate change, but capitalist entrepreneurs (the business interest) are saying we need to use technological solutions to mitigate climate change. So which demographic is generally right? Well, both! But the capitalists are only focusing on their own…
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The crazy machine and the false prophets that support it (Capitalist “free” market economy & the economists, entrepreneurs & scholars of crazy town)
Think of a machine that requires vast amounts of energy to be powered. Historically, the machine had increased in size as more fuel became available to burn. The fuel the machine incinerated for heat was a finite (limited) amount of fuel termed “fossil fuels” – a hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas,…
The Empirical Perspective 