{"id":5317,"date":"2024-01-13T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2024-01-13T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T22:00:53","slug":"human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Human \u2018behavioural crisis\u2019 at root of climate breakdown, say scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Place holder for The Guardian article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/jan\/13\/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human \u2018behavioural crisis\u2019 at root of climate breakdown, say scientists<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve socially engineered ourselves the way we geoengineered the planet,\u201d says Joseph Merz, lead author of <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00368504231201372\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a new paper<\/a> which proposes that climate breakdown is a symptom of ecological overshoot, which in turn is caused by the deliberate exploitation of human behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>We need to become mindful of the way we\u2019re being manipulated,\u201d says Merz, who is co-founder of the Merz Institute, an organisation that researches the systemic causes of the climate crisis and how to tackle them.<\/p>\n<p>Merz and colleagues believe that most climate \u201csolutions\u201d proposed so far only tackle symptoms rather than the root cause of the crisis. This, they say, leads to increasing levels of the three \u201clevers\u201d of overshoot: consumption, waste and population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Place holder for The Guardian article &#8220;Human \u2018behavioural crisis\u2019 at root of climate breakdown, say scientists&#8221; &nbsp; \u201cWe\u2019ve socially engineered ourselves the way we geoengineered the planet,\u201d 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 &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3061,6,7,8,9,2308,11,2520,13,14,15,3279,17],"tags":[4721,355,2038,427,4726,4720,4722,4719,4727,4723,4725,1323,2597,4724,2346],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5317","6":"format-standard","7":"category-climate-change","8":"category-environment","9":"category-ethical-and-green-living","10":"category-faits-divers","11":"category-feminism","12":"category-finanace","13":"category-future-of-work","14":"category-it-failures","15":"category-pandemic","16":"category-politics","17":"category-racism","18":"category-science","19":"category-the-anthropocene","20":"category-thinking-about","21":"post_tag-behavioural","22":"post_tag-carbon-emissions","23":"post_tag-climate-breakdown","24":"post_tag-climate-change","25":"post_tag-consuming","26":"post_tag-consumption","27":"post_tag-crisis","28":"post_tag-geoengineered","29":"post_tag-large-families","30":"post_tag-neuropsychology","31":"post_tag-norms","32":"post_tag-population","33":"post_tag-renewable-energy","34":"post_tag-social-signalling","35":"post_tag-waste"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5318,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions\/5318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}