Today, the constant onslaught of damning information about environmental degradation is impossible to ignore. To survive, the human psyche resorts to a cognitive dissonance. I couldn’t simultaneously feel the weight of shrinking biodiversity in the Amazon, coral bleaching in the Maldives and koalas caught in Australian bushfires every day because
... See moreIf you care about impact, our intuitions regarding goodness just kind of suck: When you ask most people to picture someone environmentally conscious they will conjure up an image of a garden, a detached home, maybe an electric car, buying local, etc...
stop trying to be a "good person"
humans are not more conscious, we don’t have more complex social systems—we just don’t try to understand the depth of the world or our fellow inter-species relatives on this planet.