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Southernrata

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Accidental care-taker of a community resource recovery hub (OneCoast.org). Also accidental solo taichi teacher. Always indifferent house-keeper. Community is everything.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Studies have shown that it is ideology & tribalism that drives climate denial; and in turn, much of today’s ideology + polarization is driven by fear of loss of privilege. Those in the demographic that have been at the top of the pyramid for so long are threatened by anything that challenges that.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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"Sorry, I'm Not in Service". Jesus on the back of a bus.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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Gosh that's an old interview. He still is a sweet guy, just so tall you cant hug him properly.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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Yes, she will be an absolute mine of information, super clued up!

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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I was rather alarmed this morning to discover that the 5 litre container from Ecostore I've been refilling my detergent bottle from for the last six months was not labelled "Dish Liquid" but "Laundry Liquid". We seem to have survived, but I'm glad I'm a diligent rinser!

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I filmed my 5000 turnover on my phone video. Luckily it was on a quiet rroad close to home!

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Here's what everyone needs to know* about climate change: 🌍 It's real 👥 It's human-caused ⚠️ It's serious 💡 With immediate action, it's solvable ⌛ Later is too late * social science shows these msgs increase acceptance of the issue, awareness of the risk and, most importantly, willingness to act.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Like the silver bullet claims, our individualistic society's obsession with personal carbon footprint also leads to despair, when we realize our personal reductions won't fix the problem. When we realize individuals CAN change the world, acting together, I believe that's where hope is found 💚 /🧵

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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So many thoughts. Thank you for asking!!! For-profit news has a well-established negative bias, because bad news generates the most shares + clicks. Because they're not incentivized to share news of positive progress, there's a significant imbalance in what's being communicated.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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And a specially timetabled bus between the stranded Christchurch railway station and the central bus exchange. Bussing to the railway station there now is nearly impossible.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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Ah, I saw this advertised. One of our favourite walks. But yes not usually many birds except the spoonbills roosting in the macrocarpa back over the bridge. I hope you have tomorrow off.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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It came and went. Nothing like the photos irl, but moments were better.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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That burst of rays at the zenith was amazing!

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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It's honestly quite nice out there now, especially not the sun is out - but I think I made it go in again by saying that!

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Well below freezing at bedtime, but the wind and cloud came through in the night.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Seriously: ASK THEM! I want to know what they say, I want them to explain their answer, and I want those answers shared so we can all see them. Effective communication begins with understanding where people are, and who's more important to communicate with than the people who make the decisions?

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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IMHO one of the hardest concepts for people worried about climate change to grasp is that fear-based messages alone are not enough to catalyze change at scale. Fear wakes us up (EPPM, Witte 1992); but if we don't think we can do anything about it (self-efficacy, Bandera 1977), we will do nothing.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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Just gone over the Rangitata River on the Intercity and seen the rail bridge still being worked on. The rails to the south have been rusty from disuse all the way up.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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Where in Dunedin CBD can I find a Danish for breakfast?

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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Here's our irony of the day. As @volts.wtf says ...

Yet those of us who relentlessly share that good news are too often stigmatized as hopium peddlers by others worried about climate...which discourages us from doing the very thing social science shows is most effective at motivating people to act.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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No, we do not have only 'two years left to save the earth.' First, it's not about saving the earth. This ball of rock will be orbiting the sun long after we're gone. It's about saving all of us living things that call it home. Second, there is no such deadline. What the science says is very clear:

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Climate Liberation Aotearoa's avatar Climate Liberation Aotearoa @climateliberation.bsky.social
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2/4 👉 Demand 2 No subsidies for the cruise ship industry. Ratepayers contribute to the profit of cruise ship corporations through subsidised on-shore transport including buses & rail, as well as sponsoring NZ Cruise Assn conference, promotion, and training and admin costs for cruise ship volunteers.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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Thank you! Really appreciated the flowchart.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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Yes please, i just discovered it and want to share but found the font colour was a bit pale for my ageing eyes. Not sure if i can dm on this platform but I will follow you to find out.

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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"Protest and activism have the potential to motivate rapid, disruptive and transformative changes [but] EU polling shows little shift in public opinions since the 2019 protests. So far, confrontational climate activism has neither deterred nor encouraged the public.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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“Doom and gloom messaging can do both things: induce helplessness, discourage individual-level action; but also motivate people to spread the word"

How did I miss this extremely fascinating study? HT @katharinehayhoe.com (via LinkedIn)

www.resilience.org/stories/2024...

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Katharine Hayhoe's avatar Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com
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I advocate for 50-50: 50% the risks of inaction to things we care about (our kids rather than the Greenland ice sheet, or our favorite sports or food rather than AMOC) and 50% the benefits of climate actions (for our health, well-being, pocketbooks, and for justice, equity, + a better world for all)

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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I read this on the Other site. Excellent article im going to share with some friends.

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I still want all those boomer national voters who love their electric bikes to rise up and protest.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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I have recently been regaled with stories from an elderly tai chi friend who built a wooden boat called the Musketeer in his spare time in the seventies, which later passed into the family by marriage of another tai chi friend! From Dunedin to Stewart Island to a charter boat in Havelock Sound...

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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Absolutely right - Kirwans is right on the top of the hill. With the most amazing views. Not thar I've been there for a couple of decades, but i dont think the geomorphology has changed much!

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Brett Scott's avatar Brett Scott @brettscott.bsky.social
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I campaigner for the protection of cash from a left-wing perspective, but I have to share the space with a lot of right-wingers. I explain the different in approach here aeon.co/essays/going...

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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I hope our portraits would look as good as these. We have Johns and Anns galore and a would be Maria, bless her!

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Oblomova's avatar Oblomova @oblomova.bsky.social
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4) I was frankly astonished how well the crop swap worked. Some people brought a lot and took little, others took more. It was very civilized.

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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"Watch the wall, my darling, while the Bedstead Men go by". Bingo!

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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"I once had a whim and I had to obey it, to buy a French horn in a second hand shop" ... And more relevant to my current preoccupations: "You'll always find a single laceless lefthand leather boot..." 😅

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Southernrata's avatar Southernrata @southernrata.bsky.social
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Blame my oldest sister who brought 2 LPs back from.her English OE, which then got thrashed to death on our portable record player by teenage me. The 97 horsepower omnibus is probably my favourite!

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Ah yes, but unlike some of the others which I know by heart, that's the only verse I can recall. It's coming back though... The house is full of garden... I'm going to have to look it up!

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I'm blocking on this one - quote me a line or two and it will come flooding back. Not the one about the gasman, is it?

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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Everything else aside: plastic recycling in particular is a massive, global system designed to create a little smattering of what vaguely looks like sustainability, purely to justify the ever-worsening and completely unstoppable stream of new plastic production: most of which *cannot* be recycled

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