Boycott products from states with dirty energy

Kennedy, Christopher

doi:10.1038/d41586-017-05907-8

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“…Many behavioral interventions have been studied for reducing households' electricity consumption (Karlin et al, 2015), yet the importance of LIMITING CLIMATE CHANGE 14 these behaviors is integrally determined by the source(s) of the electricity (Demski et al, 2018), and can vary by very large amounts even within countries. For example, in 2014 the carbon-intensity of one kWh of electricity was almost a hundred times greater in Kentucky than in Vermont due to differences in energy sources (Kennedy, 2017). Behavior change that reduces electricity use therefore has a highly variable impact on GHG emissions depending on what sources generate the electricity.…”

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How psychology can help limit climate change.

Nielsen¹,

Clayton²,

Stern

et al. 2021

American Psychologist

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has encouraged psychologists to become part of the integrated scientific effort to support the achievement of climate change targets such as keeping within 1.5C or 2C of global warming. To date, the typical psychological approach has been to demonstrate that specific concepts and theories can predict behaviors that contribute to or mitigate climate change. Psychologists need to go further, and in particular to show that integrating psychological concepts into feasible interventions can reduce greenhouse gas emissions far more than would be achieved without such integration. While critiquing some aspects of current approaches, we describe psychological research that is pointing the way by distinguishing different types of behavior, acknowledging sociocultural context, and collaborating with other disciplines. Engaging this challenge offers psychologists new opportunities for promoting mitigation, advancing psychological understanding, and developing better interdisciplinary interactions.

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Section: Limiting Climate Change 13mentioning

confidence: 99%

How psychology can help limit climate change.

Nielsen¹,

Clayton²,

Stern

et al. 2021

American Psychologist

238

150

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“…Technical potential varies substantially across behaviors and contexts. For example, the technical potential of a given change in household energy and electricity consumption can differ by an order of magnitude or more, even within the same country 62 , due to differences in energy composition and carbon intensity. The technical potential of shifting purchasing behavior across and within product types varies greatly depending on where and how the products were produced and consumed 63 .…”

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Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation

Nielsen,

Cologna,

Bauer

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Behavioural science has yielded insights about the actions of individuals, particularly as consumers, that affect climate change. Behaviours in other spheres of life remain understudied. In this Perspective, we propose a collaborative research agenda that integrates behavioural science insights across multiple disciplines. To this end, we offer six recommendations for optimizing the quality and impact of research on individual climate behaviour. The recommendations are united by a shift towards more solutions-focused research that is directly useful to citizens, policymakers and other change agents. Achieving this vision will require overcoming challenges such as the limited funding for behavioural and social sciences and structural barriers within and beyond the academic system that impede collaborations across disciplines.

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“…Another way through which socioecological conflicts have caused fossil fuel devaluation is with a drop in demand that blocks the realisation of fossil fuel energies in the market. This can be based on organised boycott campaigns, demand‐side regulations, or cultural changes in consumption practices (Kennedy 2017). In these cases, the process of “devalorisation” (Marx 1993:403) of fossil fuel energies as commodities is made more permanent, effectively creating fixed capital devaluation.…”

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The Role of Moral Devaluation in Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Limits for a Socioecological Fix

Furnaro

2021

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By putting into conversation theories of capital devaluation, the scholarship on the socioecological fix, and critical energy studies, this paper offers a conceptual framework to study the phase-out of fossil fuel energy infrastructure. The concept of moral devaluation is presented, which emphasises the interaction of economic, political, and socioecological dimensions shaping the main forces, constraints, and regulatory mechanisms to devalue emission-intensive fixed capital. This notion of moral devaluation is useful to inform empirical research on the institutional arrangements through which the devaluation of fixed fossil fuel capital is resisted and organised. Moreover, this notion complements current studies about the possibility of a capital switch to renewable energies as a socioecological fix to the climate and other entangled crises of capitalism, by emphasising that the devaluation of fixed capital represents a constraining condition for the rapid emergence of a socioecological fix based on fixed capital formation in the low-carbon energy sector.

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Boycott products from states with dirty energy

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

How psychology can help limit climate change.

How psychology can help limit climate change.

Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation

The Role of Moral Devaluation in Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Limits for a Socioecological Fix

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