“Many people misjudge which personal climate actions cut emissions most, often overrating familiar actions like recycling and underrating higher-impact changes such as flying less and eating less red meat,” Schneider says. Those findings are in line with previous studies.
Point of order: consumer-based mitigations are way less systematically effective than regulatory measures imposed on manufacturing, power plants, and marine freight.
Not saying that consumer-based mitigations should be ignored, but like, come on: of course it’s not going to make a dent if the big polluters do absolutely fuck-all in terms of changing their operations to be more ecologically sound.
Yeah this is somewhat mind boggling: “Before people can reduce their carbon footprint, they need to know what actions will most help them do so.”
Talk about cognitive bias. We’d need to completely reorganize how we live and work and eat and consume.
I’ve never seen someone doing what they’re paid to do called “cognitive bias.”
