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diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index 90b3e72..3d29bee 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -38,18 +38,11 @@ root cause of green evils is the aggregated consumption choices of all the world's individuals. So, when Christiana Figueres, a leading architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement, -wrote to the general public on the problems and solutions to climate change, -she overwhelmingly focused on individual psychology. In her telling, the -problem is that 'we' (that is, the universal human individual) are consuming too -much. The solution is to change the psychology behind over-consumption. - -> Much of what we buy is intended to enhance our sense of identity. Particular -> brands of clothes, soap, cookies, televisions, and cars and designed with a -> _tribe_ in mind, their attributes carefully cultivated by the consumer goods -> companies that sell the products. \[…\] In the UK, for example, the average -> person consumes more than 65 pounds of clothes every year, equivalent to about -> five loads of laundry. These purchases are driven mainly by the fact that -> fashion trends change every season. [@future-we-choose, p. 118] +co-wrote _The Future We Choose_, addressing the general public on the problems +and solutions to climate change, she overwhelmingly focused on individual +psychology. In her telling, the problem is that 'we' (that is, the universal +human individual) are consuming too much. The solution is to change the +psychology behind over-consumption [@future-we-choose, p. 118]. Figueres is not alone in emphasising individual psychology as a root cause of climate change. For example, writing about climate change with TV co-host Chris |