Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists

[Ajay0]

New research paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other innovations are just a sticking plaster.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504231201372

 

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Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.

“We’ve socially engineered ourselves the way we geoengineered the planet,” says Joseph Merz, lead author of a new paper which proposes that climate breakdown is a symptom of ecological overshoot, which in turn is caused by the deliberate exploitation of human behaviour.

 

[Basman]

Emissions are the consequence of people aspiring for a certain standard of living and just existing in the world we live in today. It is in a sense unfair, as society comes at the expense of the ecological health of the planet, but shouldn't people be allowed to aspire for a higher standard of living?

When a third world country goes through an industrial age they become wealthier and more stable as countries and the people are lifted from poverty (in the long run). Like with China. Is that wrong even though it pollutes the planet?

Humanity is largely driven by pain. Things can still get worse before it becomes too unbearable and have to get better, in my opinion. We are yet to fully exhaust stage orange. WW2 was the tipping point for stage blue. Maybe what we need is another catastrophe of human nature in order to change.

[Ishanga]

13 hours ago, Ajay0 said:

New research paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other innovations are just a sticking plaster.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504231201372

 

Yes, the need to look outside of Yourself for Happiness, Pleasure and Fulfillment is killing the planet, and eventually us and every other life too.  The crazier part is that it is not working lol, in the pursuit for Happiness and such, ppl are not even happier today than ever before, their more depressed, sad, lonely and anxious.. Hey if it worked and we were happier because of it then okay that is fine, but when the opposite is true and the planet is paying the price for it, this is massive Insanity to its highest limits!!