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The lengths Brits will go to stop climate change + Conversations with strangers

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Conversations with strangers remain enjoyable for much longer than we expect
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2022/01/31/con...we-expect/

INTRO: For such a social species, we are surprisingly bad at judging conversations. Now a new misapprehension can be added to the list: even after striking up a conversation with a stranger, we underestimate how much we’ll continue to enjoy it. There are potentially important implications, point out Michael Kardas at Northwestern University and colleagues: if we mistakenly avoid longer conversations, we could miss out not just on the chance to connect with someone, but even to gain a new friend. In the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes, the team reports on five studies involving a total of more than 1,000 participants and almost 1,000 spoken conversations, conducted face-to-face or via private video conferencing... (MORE - details)


Survey reveals the lengths Brits will go to stop climate change
https://wellbeingnews.co.uk/news/survey-...te-change/

EXCERPTS: . . . The UK’s leading organic brand, Yeo Valley Organic, conducted the research and found that a third of Brits are now prepared to turn their back on all foreign travel (34 per cent). And one in six young adults (17 per cent) insist they would abandon plans to have children if it was guaranteed to save the planet.

The study of 2,000 adults showed the things Brits say they’d give up completely in order to save the planet, with 41 per cent agreeing to restrict themselves to just food from the British Isles. One in ten adults in the UK, and one in five millennials, say they will happily eat burgers made from locusts instead of beef. In addition, nearly a quarter would eat no more chocolate (22 per cent) and 25 per cent would wave goodbye to coffee to prevent global warming.

“It’s incredible to see the lengths people are prepared to go to save the planet, but it doesn’t have to be as drastic as giving up having children! Making changes to our individual lifestyles can be one of the most effective ways to slow down the impact of climate change. Yet smaller lifestyle alterations are more feasible to sustain and do make a big difference in the long run,” explains Adrian Carne at Yeo Valley Organic.

[...] The research found that one in five would be prepared to have just a single bath of shower a week if it definitely made a difference and one in eight (12 per cent) would give up their central heating completely.

Almost as many – 20 per cent – would quit using a smartphone forever, rising to 34 per cent of 35 to 44 year olds.

It is a sentiment that clearly rings true with eco-minded Brits with one in three saying they would stop buying new clothes and simply wear recycled and second-hand clothing.

Almost a quarter of 25 to 34 year olds say they intend to swap their car for a bicycle to help stop climate change (22 per cent) and 40% say their next car will be all electric (33% Brits, 49% 35-44)... (MORE - missing details)
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Inner Cynic: Sure. The epitome of empty virtue signaling. Reminiscent of the vacuous pledges of legions of substance abusers and cigarette smokers in the 20th-century that boasted of how easily they could quit their dependency patterns for good at any time. Or the severe measures it took to bar the residents of Eagle Rock from their habit in that 1971 movie Cold Turkey.
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The UK is such a small country, with so little industry, that none if its efforts would make any difference, especially in the face of China's polluting. So yeah, moral posturing, at best.
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