"Thunberg doesn’t seem to need nudges, social influences or taxes, which, as our research shows, is a rare quality. " Because she doesn't have to worry how to spend her money.https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/can-you-change-for-climate-change/ …
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Let me be more concrete: Most people cannot afford to spend two weeks on a ship. A flight is considerably less expensive than the money they could earn in these two weeks, even leaving aside that normal people would have to pay for the ride on a ship as well.
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I do not think it is helpful to create a class of "climate sinners" who need "behavioral interventions" and leave aside that many people have good economic reasons to do what they do.
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2b clear: It is great if teenagers are interested in politics. Surely Greta's activism reached people who otherwise still wouldn't know climate change is real. Wonderful! But a 16 year old Swedish girl from a wealthy family makes a poor example for much of the world's population.
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Yes, perhaps we need some teenagers from other backgrounds too, that are morally autonomous and agentic enough to develop the same principled stance as Greta Thunberg. It seems that much of the world's population will prefer peer alignment to moral autonomy though.
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