On day 9 of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, we're highlighting research by @manuelsuter.bsky.social, @colognaviktoria.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social and colleagues: "Green growth beliefs: Investigating factors associated with expert opinions on green growth" 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

📢New Pre-Print available: Sustainability researchers endorse post-growth policy instruments for the European Union📢 This is the main finding of our survey with 1,734 sustainability policy researchers across 97 countries. osf.io/preprints/so...

Our newly published study suggests that a cognitive bias toward additive climate solutions (e.g., buy electric car) may limit how visible and widely adopted high-impact subtractive strategies like flying less or driving less become. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

♻️ New paper in Journal of Environmental Psychology 🙌 We examined subtraction neglect — the tendency to prioritize additive over subtractive climate strategies (e.g., buying an EV vs. flying less) when thinking about effective personal actions. Check it out! 🙃 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."

Around 75% of food waste in the hospitality industry is avoidable. Our recent field experiment in a Copenhagen à la carte restaurant explored whether informational nudges can reduce food waste at the table. 🧵

✨New paper out ✨ What are effects of scientists engaging in climate protests? Our findings suggest that it does not compromising their credibility (across political affiliations), and that such actions may have less impact than one would like to believe: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

We asked 3,000+ researchers from 101 countries if global green growth (i.e. sustainable economic growth) is possible. 59% said yes. 👇 Green growth endorsement was linked to beliefs that economic growth is key to human well-being. Thanks to @manuelsuter.bsky.social for leading this study! 👏

"[Tend] to agree that economic growth is essential to increase people’s well-being." "tend to disagree that green growth can keep global warming below 2 °C" But the IPCC states that even 2°C is considered dangerous & poses a significant threat to human well-being 🤔 Something doesn't add up!

Do researchers believe in global green growth (i.e. the idea that continued economic growth can be achieved sustainably)? We explored this question in a new study, surveying 3,028 researchers from 101 countries — all of whom have published in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Ridiculously interesting study - who in the research community beliefs in, supports or rejects 'green growth' as a model? journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

New research by @manuelsuter.bsky.social and colleagues: "Green growth beliefs: Investigating factors associated with expert opinions on green growth" journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @colognaviktoria.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social

❓Can people be encouraged to engage in more sufficiency behavior (i.e. living well on less consumption) by making them aware of the potential benefits for themselves, society, or nature? 📝 Our new study explores how different messages about sufficiency benefits impact actual sufficiency behavior.

💡For behavioral scientists💡 We have developed and validated a task called "Tree Task" to study pro-environmental behavior in the lab or online in the form of tree planting. The validation study has now been published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology:

Alice Weidel nennt Universitäten "queer-woke Kaderschmieden" und sagt: "Wir schließen alle Gender Studies und schmeißen alle diese Professoren raus". Die Naturwissenschafts-Community muss sich hier klar auf die Seite der Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaft stellen. Das ist ein Angriff auf alle. (Thread)

To the peace and conflict experts out here: How can countries protect themselves effectively geopolitically from aggressors without focusing on GDP growth as a means of financing military armament?

‘Developing countries in particular can avoid wasting billions on car infrastructure and go straight to cycling. This isn’t just for rich cities – it’s something every city on the planet can do if they want to become more efficient.’

💫 I love the direction new economy funding is heading! 💫 In this article I share 10 ways funders can even better support new economy organizations: medium.com/postgrowth/1... #postgrowth

Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation. As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵

🎉 Embrace sufficiency 🎉 Sufficiency has great untapped potential to accelerate the energy transition. In our new paper, we review key barriers, sketch how various actors can help overcome them, & draw broad lessons from transition studies for systemic change: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Climate scientists be like..

The end of the year is a time to pause, reflect, and dream. Here's what I hope for in the coming year:

🌍 Even small differences in how we communicate about climate change can shape people’s behavior. In a study we showed that even the tense used matters for climate action. 🧵

What being a pedestrian feels like when you’ve surrendered too much space to cars, leaving too little for everyone and everything else. Powerful llustration by Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration.

"Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cognitive dissonance often stops us from seriously addressing environmental issues. But why does this happen? 🧠🌍 A thread 🧵

A new study asked: Do Americans support degrowth policies? Spoiler: yes, more than you might expect! ✨ A thread 🧵

Since May 2022, Australia's Environment Minister has approved 7 new coal projects with 1,513 million tonnes of lifetime emissions. Australians would like her to stop doing this. 63% of Labor, 62% Greens & 61% Independent voters (61%) support a moratorium on new coal mines. #auspol #climate

We don’t yet know how the ubiquity of PFAS and microplastics is affecting humans but this seems bad.

Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

🚨 Big news from Switzerland! In a referendum today, Swiss citizens voted against the construction of new motorways. Let’s unpack why this matters. 🛣️🇨🇭

We all need to become eco-populists. That means championing policies that significantly lower daily costs while lowering emissions. Heat Pumps for All, alongside much more robust tenant rights; free and better public transit; price caps on green energy; make polluters pay for the transition. (4/8)

A new paper in Nature offers yet more evidence of the immense #inequality in who contributes to climate change and breaching planetary boundaries. It's time we direct our societal and political attention to those who disproportionately cause ecological breakdown! 🌱⚖️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The French city of Grenoble is doing pioneering work in putting Doughnut Economics into practice as a municipality. And they've just shared it in a fab report, in French & English. If you are in need of some inspiration (anyone?) I promise you a good dose here.... www.calameo.com/books/004190...