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Researching, Teaching & Organizing on The Climate Crisis
From cognitive neuroscience to the climate crisis
After 20 years of doing cognitive neuroscience, Prof Aron shifted to teaching, researching and organizing on the climate and ecological crisis.
These pages document the earlier research effort and the new climate psychology and action lab.
This is sobering & important.
While Norway celebrates running mostly on renewable energy & shifting big to EVs, the govt is escalating fossil extraction.
Yet again, we see the renewable transition is so far ADDITIONAL to instead of REPLACING fossil fuels.
https://t.co/5PLr6OeeM8
@ucsdgreennewde1: Woohoo! Our campaign to get @UCSanDiego to stop burning fossil gas is covered in the student newspaper! ✊🎈
“We have this new campaign called ‘Khosla Must Commit.’ And we need him ... to actually make commitments to get off the gas this decade.”
https://t.co/D7XkE1Jq9y
Cool interview!
@OlufemiOTaiwo talks about:
- how elites and institutions co-opt radical critiques to wash over injustices and further their narrow aims
- climate reparations
https://t.co/ZPcnTklYpj via @democracynow
@KenRoth: That Harvard Kennedy School reversed course in my case, given my ability to attract public attention, says nothing about what it would do to a scholar or student who was penalized for criticizing Israel without the same ability to publicize their plight. https://t.co/A2dpHmDutH
THE LATEST:
- January 2023, The Conversation publishes “3 reasons local climate activism is more powerful than people realize“.
- Oct 2022, Adam’s reviews “A Neurosurgeon’s Climate Fight” in Science Magazine
- May 2022, Adam’s book on the climate crisis is in production at Cambridge University Press.
- May 2022, our first paper from the climate and psychology lab is accepted, a pre-registered report no less! Castiglione et al. Discovering the psychological building blocks underlying climate action – a longitudinal study of real-world activism, Royal Society – Open Science.
- March 2022: Megan Phelps is interviewed by local NPR radio on eco-anxiety and climate activism.
- July 2021: Ricci’s paper “Towards real-world generalizability of a circuit for action-stopping” is published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
- July 2021: Adam interviews social and environmental psychologist Kelly Fielding and grassroots organizer Masada Disenhouse.
- April 2021: Adam is interviewed by the UCSD Climate Change Review on the psychology of collective action and activism on campus.