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Are you getting sick of messages of climate doom and dystopia? There’s another way to talk about the future. In this episode, I'm chatting with Professor Joshua D. Wright on his fascinating research into the power of the “environmental imagination” and how it drives both practical behavior change as well as political action. It’s about communicating “solutions” instead of “problems” – and it makes a dramatic difference to how people respond to the information, form groups, and lead movements. The effect of thinking of an alternative world is more subtle and nuanced than it seems. I think this might be the first research investigating the effect that looking at, and thinking about, ecotopian futures has on our pro-environmental behavior. I have a hunch that this research might be part of a growing zeitgeist of people moving out of overwhelm and into empowerment and agency over the future of our planet. Find his paper here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494420306885 Sign up to my group, The Imagine Project at katiepatrick.com/imagine - we've got a group on Discord and a monthly Zoom devoted to building a movement of imagining a better world. How to Save the World is a Podcast About the Psychology of What Gets People To Take On Sustainable Behavior and Climate Action. Environmental engineer, designer, and author, Katie Patrick, hunts down the latest behavioral science literature from top universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford to unearth the evidence-based teachings you can use to get magnitudes more people to adopt your environmental campaign, program, or product. Sign up for Katie's free behavior and gamification design course at katiepatrick.com Get a copy of How to Save the World on Amazon This podcast is supported by our friends at Earth Hacks who run environmental hackathons, Conservation X Labs who promote community-driven open tech development for conservation, and Climate Designers - a network of designers who use their creative skills for climate action. You might enjoy joining their communities and events. Contribute a monthly donation at patreon.com/katiepatrick to help me continue to make these episodes possible. Thank you to Jordan, Nader, Mike, Gary, Alex, Ben, Dee, and Ian for contributing! Xx Follow on Twitter @katiepatrick, Instagram @katiepatrickhello, and LinkedIn Book a 90-minute idea-storming call with Katie: https://buy.stripe.com/8wM8yS92c0mg1q07ss

Are you getting sick of messages of climate doom and dystopia? There’s another way to talk about the future. In this episode, I'm chatting with Professor Joshua D. Wright on his fascinating research into the power of the “environmental imagination” and how it drives both practical behavior change as well as political action. It’s about communicating “solutions” instead of “problems” – and it makes a dramatic difference to how people respond to the information, form groups, and lead movements. The effect of thinking of an alternative world is more subtle and nuanced than it seems. I think this might be the first research investigating the effect that looking at, and thinking about, ecotopian futures has on our pro-environmental behavior. I have a hunch that this research might be part of a growing zeitgeist of people moving out of overwhelm and into empowerment and agency over the future of our planet. Find his paper here <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494420306885" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494420306885</a> Sign up to my group, The Imagine Project at <a href="//katiepatrick.com/imagine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">katiepatrick.com/imagine</a> - we've got a group on Discord and a monthly Zoom devoted to building a movement of imagining a better world. How to Save the World is a Podcast About the Psychology of What Gets People To Take On Sustainable Behavior and Climate Action. Environmental engineer, designer, and author, Katie Patrick, hunts down the latest behavioral science literature from top universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Stanford to unearth the evidence-based teachings you can use to get magnitudes more people to adopt your environmental campaign, program, or product. Sign up for Katie's free behavior and gamification design course at <a href="http://katiepatrick.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">katiepatrick.com</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/2Z4jivL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Get a copy of How to Save the World on Amazon</a> This podcast is supported by our friends at <a href="https://earthhacks.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Earth Hacks</a> who run environmental hackathons, <a href="https://conservationxlabs.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conservation X Labs</a> who promote community-driven open tech development for conservation, and <a href="https://climatedesigners.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Climate Designers</a> - a network of designers who use their creative skills for climate action. You might enjoy joining their communities and events. Contribute a monthly donation at <a href="https://patreon.com/katiepatrick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/katiepatrick</a> to help me continue to make these episodes possible. Thank you to Jordan, Nader, Mike, Gary, Alex, Ben, Dee, and Ian for contributing! Xx Follow on <a href="https://twitter.com/katiepatrick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter @katiepatrick</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/katiepatrickhello/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram @katiepatrickhello</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-patrick-4474499/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> Book a 90-minute idea-storming call with Katie: <a href="https://buy.stripe.com/8wM8yS92c0mg1q07ss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://buy.stripe.com/8wM8yS92c0mg1q07ss</a>

How Environmental Imagination Exercises Lead to Behavioral and Political Action, Joshua D. Wright PhD Ep26

America’s adoption of the consumer welfare standard since the late 1970s has led to the rise of innovative Big Tech companies like Google and Amazon. Other countries, particularly in Europe, would love to have massively successful tech firms of their own, but they’re constrained in part by their more restrictive antitrust doctrines. And yet, many conservatives have begun to sound like progressives on this topic, rejecting a more laissez-faire approach to antitrust out of concern that these tech companies have acquired too much power. So today’s episode explores the current state of US antitrust doctrine, as well as the resurgence of calls to reform it, with Joshua Wright.Josh is a law professor at George Mason University, as well as the executive director of the Global Antitrust Institute and a former member of the Federal Trade Commission. He is the co-author, along with Jan Rybnicek, of the recent National Affairs article, “A Time for Choosing: The Conservative Case Against Weaponizing Antitrust.”

America’s adoption of the consumer welfare standard since the late 1970s has led to the rise of innovative Big Tech companies like Google and Amazon. Other countries, particularly in Europe, would love to have massively successful tech firms of their own, but they’re constrained in part by their more restrictive antitrust doctrines. And yet, many conservatives have begun to sound like progressives on this topic, rejecting a more laissez-faire approach to antitrust out of concern that these tech companies have acquired too much power. So today’s episode explores the current state of US antitrust doctrine, as well as the resurgence of calls to reform it, with Joshua Wright.Josh is a law professor at George Mason University, as well as the executive director of the Global Antitrust Institute and a former member of the Federal Trade Commission. He is the co-author, along with Jan Rybnicek, of the recent National Affairs article, “<a href="https://nationalaffairs.com/time-choosing-conservative-case-against-weaponizing-antitrust" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">A Time for Choosing: The Conservative Case Against Weaponizing Antitrust</a>.”

Joshua D. Wright: The conservative case against weaponizing antitrust