2024-01-08
27 分钟Pushkin.
I would just kind of get this glare of like, why are you killing the earth?
And that wasn't a good feeling.
Psychologist Liz Dunn once had a boyfriend who liked to remind her to turn off the lights.
A lot.
That actually made me almost take an opposing stance.
I certainly wasn't like a climate change denier, but I was like,
oh, you know, technology's gonna figure this out.
Liz is no longer with that guy.
Getting scolded and shamed, it turns out, isn't great for romantic relationships.
It's not my husband to downmarry him.
But these harsh practices aren't great for motivating sustainable behaviors either.
So what's another tactic for slowing global warming?
Maybe we should scare folks into taking action.
One of my friends, she just sort of imagines like her daughters floating alone in a raft,
you know, and this is like the image that she has when she thinks about climate change.
And therefore, she doesn't think so much about climate change because that's terrible, right?
So haranguing people doesn't work, neither does terrifying them.
What strategies can we use to get people to reduce their carbon footprint?
Maybe we need to give everyone a little bit more hope.