A person who does not value personal honesty & spends a considerable amount of their time plotting ways to discredit the scientific evidence (that doesn't align with their agendas) is a narcissist (narc)

If a narc did see a #psychologist (e.g., due to criminal behaviour), they will try to manipulate the psychologist as they believe they're far more intelligent.

Some people plot terrible things & only feel sorry (for themselves) after they're found out.

#psychology #climate #greenwash

#AirPollution has sent many people to an early grave

To paraphrase "Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP), coal & wood smoke pollution is ubiquitous
In today’s cities, towns & villages
& a major public health concern
resulting in premature death
& a wide spectrum of global diseases" https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819136-1.00003-6

'the invisible killer' https://theecologist.org/2018/nov/27/air-pollution-invisible-killer

#science #health #ClimateChange #TrafficPollution #FossilFuels #WoodSmoke #disease #money #greenwash

The #greenwash, rinse, & repeat of business as usual causing #ClimateChange.

Fixing the root of the problem in many contexts would lose industry money because their products are the problem.

Industry makes a polluting product, advertisers sell it using hype, & consumers buy the product.

#Science, etc., details the problem, e.g.,  air pollution,  the industry & their political lobbyists, often in government, try to cover up the evidence & misinform consumers.

Wash & repeat consumerism

#maladaptations: Misleading #offsets carry negative #consequences for the #climate because they are not #offsetting the #emissions released… not reducing deforestation as much as claimed, and for the future finance of #forestconservation because the reputational risks of being tainted by accusations of #greenwash may deter future #investments- Julia P. G. Jones
#deforestation
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/24/why-planting-trees-to-offset-carbon-emissions-doesnt-really-work-according-to-experts/

The *conflict* of interests & industry lobbyists

The "Junk" food industries Vs healthier diets.

The "Fossil" fuel industries Vs. #CleanAir, therefore mitigating #ClimateChange

The vehicle industries Vs clean air, bicycle lanes & EV public transport Inc. International EV trains.

Sheep or Cow farming Vs #rewilding & a plant & fungi-based healthier diet.

The "fossil" fuel plastics industry Vs plant-based plastics

Corporate power Vs Democracy

Honesty Vs #greenwash

#Science Vs dogma

@bikenut

FYI, the "no one wants to accept it" is also often correct regarding any form of air pollution that is associated with consumers buying & using air-polluting machines.

Many people simply believe what they want to believe, & or #greenwash consumers

There is #AirPollution & #climate apathy. Not caring, but, often moral grandstanding otherwise

Actions "speak" louder than words in the context of air pollution

Greta Thunberg noticed the adults, on average, "blah blah" #psychology

#climate #psychology

The corrupt industry lobbyists falsely use the term #greenwash to greenwash their consumers

This is how

1. Online, they promote the idea that it's not the consumers' responsibility to stop using their products.

2. They say that only industries can reduce greenhouse gases.

3. They know full well that the industries won't stop selling their products to consumers.

Outcome: Consumers & industries that aren't taking responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions

Why are humans so different from non-human animals? Spoiler alert! We're not!

Besides that is in one important way. We are the only species that is capable of destroying our own environment.

A tool can be used to do constructive or destructive actions.

#Evolution Talk: Hominins: The End of the Hominin River

Episode webpage: https://evolutiontalk.com/the-end-of-the-hominin-river/

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/evolutiontalk/122_Homo-sapiens.mp3?dest-id=522162

#ClimateChange #corruption #greed #FossilFuels #meat #greenwash

@durrandon @muratk5n

In the UK the non-meat, non-dairy, non-leather products are at least equivalently priced.

Plus, generally, a plant & fungi based diet is much healthier. But, that's also because many meat eaters consume high amounts of animal phat, salt & processed sugar (increasing the chance of cardiovascular disease)

Fundamentally, ending the meat & fossil fuel industries are essential requirements to mitigate #ClimateChange

These industries are corrupt, so they #greenwash

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/26/farming-good-factory-bad-global-food-crisis Why bucolic and nostalgic images of better ways of producing #meat and #dairy are little more than #greenwash for #animalfarming #agribusiness .

#veganism is an area where we really do need new low energy, low land-use bio-technologies.

Thus freeing up land for #carboncapture through #rewilding and to enrich all our lives.

@hembrow @BBCRD

Nope! it's generally what those in the know term "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic".

Ending the fossil, wood fuel & meat industries is the only way to deal with #ClimateChange

The products that tend to be sold with #greenwash on #British #TV channels

@ariadne No sorry this is #greenwash for the #meatindustry .

Bucolic fantasy that serves agribusiness in the end.

I think that the reason why many adults don't behave as if they're concerned about #airPollution, is because they're misinformed (unquestioning "herd" mentality)

I believe they have developed this mentality (beliefs & attitudes) primarily because of the disinformation they have, unknowingly, been exposed to throughout their lives.

No informed, & free to choose person, would expose themselves to toxins such as wood smoke or traffic fumes, that cause a slow painful deaths

#climate #greenwash

#Greenwash is relatively dumbed down information.

So, why do many people believe in greenwash?

#psychology #disinformation #politics #business #news #religiosity #faith #hope #money #consumerism #greed #vanity #hubris #ignorace #nonsense

Rather awkward that the British cycling team are riding with a Shell logo on their sleeves at the world championship

#cycling #greenwash

Generally speaking, what do people want?

To feel bad by learning about how their own air polluting activities are causing diseases & climate change?

Or, on average, do people prefer to watch & listen to the feel good advertising, that doesn't mention air pollution whilst selling a, for example, hybrid fuel burning vehicle or a holiday complete with "carbon offsetting" in accommodation with a "fireside" feeling

#Behaviourism #psychology #ClimateCrisis #misinformation #greenwash #denial

I often refer to maladapted behaviours for being the underlying psychological cause of #ClimateChange. #Greenwash is one obvious example of a behaviour that, if wasn't present, would had led to a better outcome.

A typical example of maladapted (unhealthy) psychology is when people choose to eat or drink too much unhealthy food. E.g., Food containing processed sugar & animal phat. In moderation, these foods wouldn't cause diseases, too much, causes type II diabetes & cardiovascular diseases.

Premise: Human caused #CimateChange has a high probability of causing a system wide ecological collapse, therefore cultural collapse, because the average human enjoys doing \ taking part in activities that pollute the air (e.g., vehicles, BBQs, campfires, eating meat, etc)

The fundamental #psychology of feeling good about sitting around a campfire is a stone age brain behaviours

Environmentally maladapted, on average

#AirPollution #money #consumerism #greenwash # #probability #ClimateCrisis

As more forests burn due to global heating, many people will try not to think too much about this 🫣, & instead they will be thinking about their next jet-set holiday 🤔

As #tourist companies "adapt" their #greenwash to the new "normal", that they contributed towards causing with, for example, aiming to get more "bums on passenger flight seats" with their fake carbon offsetting schemes, l expect they will have their sights on cooler locations that are less probable to burn.

#ClimateDiary

"Green" transition going well, airplane & boat fuel will soon give everyone cancer and make fish inedible due cancer risk. Plus everyone around the plant can also be assured of getting cancer. #ClimateCrisis #Greenwash #Cancer

https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-approved-chevron-fuel-ingredient-cancer-risk-plastics-biofuel