Tag: science
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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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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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Damned if we do and damned if we don’t (burn fossil fuels).
The present energy demands of the present form of dominant societies – mean they’re dammed if they do burn fossil fuels and dammed if they don’t burn fossil fuels. The short-term narrow-minded thinking of the “elite” business class of politicians are causing an ecological catastrophe. Ideally, society would not keep repeating the incorrect narratives from…
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Greenwashing. Mentions delusions (that many are not ware of)
How to (really) stop the greenwashers. *Priors. *Subjective = thoughts. What people think, believe, and say. What they may understand or not understand. What they may be honest or dishonest about. *Objective = actions (activities). What people do and the effects of what they do. *Thoughtlessness = Not thinking about the effects of actions (including…
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More than half of the UK people believe the opposite of the truth (Mentions deception)
What is the underlying #psychology of delusion or mistaken beliefs? Ignorance is the most common underlying psychology of why people perceive a subjective reality that does not align with objective reality. Wishful thinking is the most common underlying psychology of why people don’t develop a perception that is more aligned with reality. Or rather, our…
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The Human Vs Ecosystem alignment problem.
Whilst most humans are not explicitly against “nature” – most individuals activities are not focused on sustaining their proximate environments. Collectively, humanity isn’t focused on sustaining the planet’s life support systems (I.e., ecology). We can term this an alignment problem. This conflict of interests, between human agendas & “nature’, will ruin civilisations if its not…
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Is this post fake? (this post will cause negative emotions for some people)
This article is not a particularly balanced critical evaluation. It focuses more on why there is so much social crap posted on the internet. The internet can be used as a tool to share reliable information, or it can be used to spread forms of gossip (e.g., propaganda) Rather than write how l fact-check posts…
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