Climate change is the product of billions of acts of daily consumption. While the system-level changes are gaining much traction, the one solution that is often neglected is the individual behaviour. Let’s see what factors influence the behaviours of individuals’ to lead a sustainable lifestyle.
By:
Vamsi Sankar Kapilavai, Senior Researcher - Environment and Climate Action
It is not the most enviable of tasks - to announce to anyone that the future is not what it used to be. More so if the audiences for our apocalyptic messages are gleamy-eyed youngsters, with supposedly a heady mix of hope, irreverence and apathy (they can ill-afford, if you ask us). And what reason do we have to snuff out the rosy future they’ve imagined for the world? The ‘ambiguous’, ‘invisible’ and ‘deniable’ omnibus of reasons called climate crisis/emergency.
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