Rachel Donald reports in the @guardian on a new paper by Joseph Merz, Phoebe Barnard et al. that explores the "behavioural crisis" where neuropsychology, social signalling and norms are deliberately exploited to drive "ecological overshoot".

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504231201372

#merzinstitute #behaviouralcrisis #behavioralcrisis #ecologicaloverschoot #sustainability

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