PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE
Ключевые слова:
adaptive muddling behavior change behavioral continuity behavioral wedges demand reduction durable change environmental psychology human nature innate inclinations intrinsic satisfactionsАннотация
The converging of climate disruption, energy descent and economic instability is stressing civilization, perhaps foreshadowing a downshift to a lower level of complexity [1]. It is easy to despair at the unsustainability of human behavior; however, such despair may come from taking too narrow and pessimistic a view of human nature, such as believing:
Unsustainability results from a motivational drive to reduce cognitive dissonance, which leaves us floundering in collective denial;
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