The Power Within: Unraveling Human Foresight – Willpower or Limited Willpower?

Freepik When it comes to achieving our long-term goals and making important decisions, human foresight plays a crucial role. The ability to envision the future and make choices that align with our desired outcomes is a complex phenomenon that has intrigued researchers and scholars for years. In the quest to understand the dynamics of human …

The Dual-System thinking, could it be useful to focus sustainability on rationality?

Nowadays, and faced with the need to constantly make decisions in all kinds of areas, comfort and lack of reflection tend to prevail over time and effort. This can be dedicated to a multitude of facets of daily life. From the first decisions one makes in the morning regarding personal hygiene, to the most complex …

Sustainable women’s rights

Women in Iran are not allowed to do many things that other women can in developed countries. The history of women's movements is a long one in Iran, and yet society is still struggling to reach equal rights for women. In this post, I will try to look at it from a sustainability standpoint and …

In each other’s throat on climate change North vs South?

In the Global South, we are often confronted with the need to combat climate change just like the rest of the world, only that, the impact faced is more severe and the means to manage the consequences limited,  Global South, with some countries in the sub-Saharan African region, registering no rain for more than two …

Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Value-Action Dilemma in Consumer Behavior

Last week, while I was scrolling on Instagram, a sudden need for a new pair of trousers appeared in my mind. Despite already having more than five of them, it was not satisfactory. Am I not the only one who frequently feels the need to buy new clothes, shoes, notebooks, cups, dog toys, etc.? Should …

Positivism as driving force for the climate change´s fight.

We every day hear we must have willpower and positivism in all things to carry on and move forward them. The fight against climate change is not a different case. Additionally, this topic or any other one may depend on the way experts and politican talk about it and the narratives they use. Concerning the …

Further insight on perspective taking to aid awareness on sustainability

A reflection Can perspective taking truly make a difference in helping ordinary people live in a manner depicting awareness of their surrounding environment and promoting sustainability? Can placing yourself in the shoes of another, while trying to understand the challenges they face daily cause us to truly change our actions? This is the idea that …

Sustainability through behavioural economics

Insights on how to create more effective policies for sustainable consumption and production can be gained from an understanding of human decision-making. Traits shared by many for effective solution which later becomes a habit is called nudges. The fact that many decisions are formed by automatic, unconscious processes using data that our conscious, logical minds …

Can behavioral interventions help to solve the plastic bag problem?

Source: Picard, 2018. The overuse of disposable plastic bags poses a major environmental threat on a global scale (Rivers et al., 2016). Plastic shopping bags were firstly introduced in the 1970s and, due to being highly convenient and useful, quickly distributed worldwide (Rivers et al., 2016). However, in most countries the recycling rates are considerably …

The Role of Developing Countries in the Climate Crisis

For decades, short-term economic growth and development have been pursued to the detriment of environmental preservation and protection. With a larger world population; demand for food, water, fuel, and natural resources has grown as well, at the cost of biodiversity, desertification, threatening water scarcity, and pollution. Since the industrial revolution, rich countries have been fulfilling …