Estimation seems much more likely to promote clear statistical thinking.

When thinking about your relationship with AI in general, it helps to consider a spectrum. On one end, you reject the technology completely: you don’t want it anywhere near your notes. On the other end, the AI completely replaces you. Neither extreme is desirable, so most approaches fall somewhere on the spectrum.

Coping strategies for climate change anxiety: a perspective on building resilience through psychological capital Thomas Kwame Osei Atta Nimo Thomas Kwame Osei Atta Nimo 1Department of Education and Psychology, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Find articles by Thomas Kwame Osei Atta Nimo 1,✉, Hansen Akoto-Baako Hansen Akoto-Baako 2Departmet of Education, Jasikan College of Education, Jasikan, Ghana Find articles by Hansen Akoto-Baako 2, Ebenezer Oduro Antiri Ebenezer Oduro Antiri 3Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana 4Cardiometabolic Epidemiology Research Laboratory, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Find articles by Ebenezer Oduro Antiri 3,4, Edward Wilson Ansah Edward Wilson Ansah 3Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Find articles by Edward Wilson Ansah 3 Author information Article notes Copyright and License information 1Department of Education and Psychology, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana 2Departmet of Education, Jasikan College of Education, Jasikan, Ghana 3Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana 4Cardiometabolic Epidemiology Research Laboratory, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana ✉Thomas Kwame Osei Atta Nimo, Department of Education and Psychology, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana; thomas.nimo@stu.ucc.edu.gh No, there are no competing interests. Received 2024 Oct 22; Accepted 2025 Jun 15; Collection date 2025. Copyright © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. Published by BMJ Group. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. PMC Copyright notice PMCID: PMC12207113  PMID: 40571424 Abstract As the global impacts of climate change become more apparent, there is a corresponding increase in the psychological effects of the phenomenon, including climate change anxiety, stress and helplessness or hopelessness. Positive psychology provides a promising approach for tackling these mental health challenges by consolidating mental strength and building resilience. In this article, we consider how positive psychological coping mechanisms can lessen the negative impacts of climate change on mental health, especially in vulnerable populations. Based on evidence-based concepts such as psychological capital, positive psychology interventions seek to empower individuals, bolstering their capacity for optimism, self-efficacy and problem solving. By transforming anxiety into proactive behaviour, interventions such as mindfulness, cognitive reframing and encouraging environmental engagement could assist individuals in navigating the emotional toll of climate change. Although these strategies are not a solution to the climate crisis itself, they are adaptative strategies that equip individuals and communities with the means to cope with climate-related challenges more effectively and take positive actions. This perspective note also addresses the significance of incorporating these techniques into public health educational initiatives and policy-making, highlighting the necessity of accessible interventions that can be tailored to various cultural and socioeconomic contexts. Accordingly, we specifically discuss how positive psychology can be leveraged to foster resilience and hope, providing insight into how these concepts can support mental health and well-being in an era of climate change crisis. Keywords: Anxiety disorders, Depression & mood disorders, Suicide & self-harmIntroduction The global climate crisis has far-reaching effects, extending beyond environmental and physical damages.1 Whereas much of the attention has been placed on the ecological and economic repercussions of climate change, there has been relatively less focus on health, including the psychological effects of the crisis.1 Chronic fear and worry about environmental deterioration and its consequences for the future is known as climate change anxiety, which emerged as a significant mental health and public health issue.2 Climate change anxiety typically manifests as feelings of being overwhelmed, helplessness, grief and worry over the state of the world, often leading to severe mental health issues such as insomnia, headaches and panic attacks.3 Climate anxiety or climate change anxiety is especially prevalent among vulnerable populations such as persons with pre-existing mental conditions, marginalised groups, migrants and displaced persons, women, elderly people and young people.4 Their aim is to find sustainable and positive coping mechanisms to deal with the mounting psychological and emotional load associated with climate change.5 6 Climate change often invokes similar anxieties or emotional reactions such as ecological grief (grief experienced in response to actual or anticipated ecological loss) and solastalgia (distress brought on by environmental change in one’s home environment) highlights the complexity of the effects of climate change on mental health.3 Positive psychology, therefore, provides a useful framework for developing coping mechanisms in response to climate change, emphasising fostering mental well-being and enhancing human strengths for health.5 In this perspective, we attempt to look at how positive psychology coping mechanisms, particularly Psychological Capital (PsyCap), could foster resilience-building that can assist individuals in managing anxiety associated with climate change. Furthermore, positive psychology could foster a solution-oriented mindset and collective efficacy, encouraging individuals and communities to take meaningful actions that contribute to societal and communal responses to the climate crisis.7 Positive psychology is a promising approach to bolster both individual and collective capacity to cope with climate-related stressors, with a particular focus on cultivating optimism, self-efficacy, resilience and hope using evidence-based interventions to promote public health.8 Beyond these, we hope to draw the attention of climate change researchers and generate interest in this area of climate change research.Climate change adaptive strategies The WHO’s operational framework for building climate resilient health systems9 provides a valuable perspective for evaluating the mental health effects of climate change and possible coping mechanisms. The framework emphasises the need for robust adaptive strategies in the face of climate change. Of particular interest is the eighth key component of the framework, which is concerned with climate-informed health initiatives.9 The mental health facet of this component highlights three objectives, including creating community-based monitoring systems for people with mental illness during extreme weather events, attending to the mental health needs of populations exposed to trauma and climate change disasters, and creating emergency preparedness plans specifically designed to meet the needs of mental health patients.9 However, it is crucial to understand that climate change anxiety is not inherently pathological but is a natural, even rational reaction to actual existential threats from the climate crisis. Recognising this could prevent the overmedicalisation of emotional reactions to the crisis, rather channelling these concerns into proactive and adaptive behaviours both at individual and community levels.4 Positive psychology offers valuable strategies for potentially achieving all three objectives, in order to improve climate-related mental health outcomes.5 Moreover, because the climate crisis is a public health crisis that needs evidence-informed adaptation strategies, understanding and leveraging positive psychology provides a window of hope.Positive psychology and climate change Positive psychology highlights the development of positive emotions, strengths and resilience, rather than the sole focus on the problems and challenges that exist within an individual’s environment.7 In the practice of positive psychology, psychological interventions have been used to transform a mindset of hopelessness into a mindset of optimism in adverse situations.10 This concept can be applied in the context of climate change or climate crisis, as the approach has the potential to change the narrative surrounding climate change-induced helplessness to empowerment.10 It has been demonstrated that PsyCap, a key positive psychology construct that encompasses self-efficacy, optimism, resilience and hope, improves an individual’s capacity to cope with adversity.7 Through the encouragement of a sense of control and purpose, PsyCap interventions like goal-setting activities and resilience training may help reduce anxiety related to climate change.6 Additionally, by encouraging active participation, PsyCap not only improves individual mental health but also contributes to collective efficacy and community-led climate initiatives.8 The aim is to reduce climate change anxiety and its consequences on individuals, the community and public health. Climate action and self-efficacy One of the best strategies to mitigate climate change anxiety is through the development of self-efficacy, which has been characterised as an individual’s conviction or belief to bring about the needed change.11 Environmentally friendly behaviour is most likely to be adopted by people who believe they can contribute solutions to the climate crisis, which can consequently reduce feelings of helplessness.2 Interventions that focus on fostering self-efficacy, such as environmental education programmes that empower people to act, could be decisive in transforming the typical reaction to climate change from anxiety to constructive engagement.2 As recommended by the WHO framework, self-efficacy-building activities could be incorporated into community-based monitoring systems by involving residents, particularly those with a history of mental health vulnerabilities, in decision-making and climate adaptation planning.9 These initiatives do not only foster a sense of agency, but promote community belongingness and mutual support, which are crucial for building and maintaining psychological resilience. However, it is important to recognise that placing too much emphasis on individual responsibility for coping and climate action may inadvertently take the focus off structural and systemic causes of the crisis. This risk is especially significant for those living in resource-limited environments, where encouraging a sense of control without considering contextual limitations may worsen psychological discomfort and reinforce feelings of helplessness. Therefore, state actors like government through ministries and agencies, and non-governmental organisations and other institutions need to provide the needed climate change adaptation mechanisms to build both individual and community resilience.Optimism and cognitive reframing Another element of PsyCap is optimism, the ability of an individual to remain hopeful and upbeat in a negative situation, or in the face of adversity.8 Optimism in the context of climate change does not imply downplaying the gravity of the situation or the crisis, but rather refers to cognitive reframing, which is shifting the viewpoint from one of doom to hope.12 The implementation of cognitive–behavioural therapy techniques, such as transforming thoughts and perceptions about climate change from those of a catastrophe to a manageable challenge, could help people to develop a more resilient and hopeful mindset so they can concentrate on finding solutions rather than being overwhelmed with fear.13 14 The belief is that in such helplessness, there is the likelihood that both individuals and communities would remain inactive and worsen their condition. In line with the WHO framework’s second objective, optimism training could be incorporated into programmes for psychological first aid and trauma response, in order to assist individuals and communities exposed to climate-related trauma.9 Such interventions help maintain motivation and reduce cognitive paralysis, enabling persons to engage in adaptive behaviour rather than be paralysed by dread. Nevertheless, fostering optimism needs to be done carefully, as the absence of a parallel systemic support may foster a false sense of control that has the potential to worsen their distress.Resilience and adaptability Resilience has often been described as the capacity to overcome hardship or bounce back from adversity and is considered essential for bolstering mental health in the face of the climate crisis.7 Programmes for resilience training, which are frequently employed in disaster preparedness and response, could be adapted to assist individuals and communities in coping with climate-related stress.15 This closely relates to the WHO’s recommendation that emergency preparedness programmes need to incorporate mental health considerations and be climate-informed. Individuals can maintain and even improve their psychological well-being even in the face of environmental uncertainty by cultivating adaptive skills that bolster resilience.16 It has been recommended that bolstering resilience and adaptability is done through improving social connections, community engagement and collective problem-solving, which boost an individual and society’s capacity to respond actively to climate issues.15 This collective involvement strengthens a sense of shared identity, purpose and belonging, which are important protective factors against anxiety and depression.Hope as a coping mechanism Hope is a key positive psychology and PsyCap construct that is essential for personal and collective mental well-being.14 Hope, in the context of climate change, refers to the belief that meaningful action can slow down the deteriorating effects of climate change.14 Hope can also mean that individuals and communities believe they have appropriate adaptive mechanisms to bounce back from climate change disasters. Studies have shown that individuals who have higher levels of hope are more likely to engage in pro-environmental behaviours.17 Hope-promoting interventions, like community-driven sustainability initiatives, support the three WHO objectives by improving coping, strengthening community-based mental health networks and fostering a common belief in collective recovery and action.9 This can provide individuals with a sense of direction and lessen feelings of despair and dejection.14 Fostering hope in the face of the climate change crisis requires reinforcing the idea and belief that despite the gravity of the climate situation, positive outcomes may be achieved through appropriate individual and collective efforts.14 17 In contrast to resignation, which may provide momentary respite, hope is linked to psychological development, meaning-making and sustained motivation, which are critical for long-term mental health and community resilience against the crisis.17 However, it is critical to recognise that deeper engagement with climate change could intensify the feeling of anxiety. In such situations, interventions should be sensitive to psychological readiness, striking a balance between hopeful engagement, emotional support and realistic goal-setting in catastrophic climate change events.Mindfulness-based positive psychology interventions to mitigate climate change anxiety The literature has shown mindfulness to be one of the most effective interventions for collectively improving self-efficacy, optimism, resilience and hope.18 19 Positive psychology interventions based on mindfulness have gained popularity as useful approaches for coping with emotional distress and anxiety.19 By improving these four constructs, mindfulness improves PsyCap by providing a targeted approach to cope with climate change anxiety.19 With regard to climate change, mindfulness practices like breathing exercises and meditation can help people regulate their emotions and reduce the debilitating feeling of powerlessness that frequently accompanies climate anxiety.20 Mindfulness practices encourage a present-focused awareness and assist individuals in processing their feelings in a non-judgemental manner,18 serving as a useful coping strategy for climate change anxiety.Implications for public health Addressing the effects of climate change on mental health may require incorporating coping mechanisms from positive psychology into public health initiatives.9 Public health campaigns should inculcate and promote PsyCap-based interventions, providing individuals and communities with the psychological resources needed to cope with climate anxiety. School curricula should include climate change educational initiatives that emphasise self-efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience to help young people deal with their climate-related anxieties. From a policy perspective, promoting mental health alongside taking positive climate action could result in an all-encompassing response to the climate crisis. Essentially, policies that promote and guarantee community-based resilience programmes, mental health assistance for climate change anxiety, and funding for climate change-related positive psychology interventions will ensure a healthier and more involved society.16 Moreover, public health research that studies climate change anxiety with cross-sectional and longitudinal designs is important to informed practice and policy.Conclusions Positive psychology offers a valid means of mitigating the psychological and emotional toll of climate change by bolstering self-efficacy, optimism, resilience and hope of individuals and communities at risk. By emphasising strengths rather than weaknesses, positive psychology coping techniques could transform climate change fear into constructive, proactive and solution-focused behaviours. As the effects of climate change on mental health continue to worsen, incorporating positive psychology techniques into public health, education and policy is vital for building a resilient and empowered society.

But also, you know,if you look at the world,what you seeis things appearing and disappearing,and humans are a partof the whole of that,and humans appear and they disappear.- Hmm.- Off the face of the Earth.That just happens.You know, our egos personalize itand we consider ourselves special cases.-Yes.-But we're really not, you know?We are a part of the wholeand everything in the wholetransforms all the time.It changes form. Transfigures.You're a special case.- That's 'cause I'm your mama.- No!No, I know there's... I know, but come on.There's no way to stop the heartbreak.How do you...What do you do about that?You cry.You cry.It's really hard.But it's definitely somethingeveryone's got to, you know, deal with.Yeah.And it's such a strange thing.I mean, the universe, it...it seems so stable......if you are...you know.......in this kind of automatic state.And the encounter with truth,which, for me, you dying...your dying....This thing has beenprobably the greatest...run-in with truth that I've hadin my whole life.You can't really...It's inexpressible.Yeah.But it's not like it makes you feel...This... This is not a feeling of, like...-This is not a desirable feeling.-No.But it's a feeling that every singlehuman being will experienceone way or the other.It is.But so much...So many of us are spending so much timeengaged in just ridiculous activities,it seems like,just to try to avoid this experience.Exactly.People really try to avoidthe consideration that they are gonna dieand that people they love are gonna die.It opens your heart.It breaks your heart open.- Yes.- You know?Our hearts have been closed,because we've closed them.We've defended ourselves against pain.And this opens them.Opening your heart sucks.- It hurts.- This is the thing.This is the thing Ram Dasstalks about all the... It hurts.Does it always hurt?Does opening your heart always just hurt?Are you just in a constant state of...No, it doesn't always hurt.But when it really cracks open, it hurts.You know? And it does.Even the hurt transforms,because if you inquire into the hurt,you know what you're experiencing is love.-Right.-The real deal.Yeah, it's... Yeah, right.Because it's seeing newness.It's seeing how much you value life.Yes. And the reasonI look better now than I ever have- is because I am more fully living.- Right.Because I'm living and dying consciously.Simultaneously, I'm holding both.

Climate scientists have determined that climate change alters precipitation patterns, increasing the likelihood, duration, and intensity of lethal heat waves, and the frequency and intensity of precipitation. Climate change induces the conditions that cause drought and fan uncontrollable wildfires, threatening public health through extreme weather events such as intense storms, floods, and heat waves. Climatologists also link changes in the jet stream to persistent weather extremes such as heat domes and polar vortices. The phenomenon disrupts natural ecosystems, heightens the risk of endangerment or extinction of some species; increases the likelihood of vector-borne diseases spreading over greater areas; and compromises agriculture, water resources, and infrastructure. Climate activists argue that the effects of climate change have been felt most acutely by the world's most vulnerable nations, which are responsible for generating only a small fraction of total cumulative GHG emissions. Climate-related disasters and conflict contribute to mass migration worldwide. Migrants displaced by climate change are often referred to as climate refugees or as "persons displaced in the context of disasters and climate change."

Weather data confirmed 2024 as the hottest year on record since 1850, with the ten warmest years ever recorded occurring in the previous ten years.

No one wants to change.

I think I’ve touched some people individually. I’ve had some successful projects where we actually got something where we could see the benefits of what we were doing.

The ferociously spirited press of the late 1700s…was dominated by individuals expressing their opinions. The idea that ordinary citizens with no special resources, expertise, or political power—like Paine himself—could sound off, reach wide audiences, even spark revolutions, was brand-new to the world.”Jon Katz, “The Age of Paine,” Wired, May 1995

Stories can produce results that slogans and demands can't. Reality, in the form of how people actually respond, pushed Weymouth to correct his formula.

This is why I count myself as a Pragmatist. It's a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for problem-solving and action, not for trying to create a mirror of reality. At its core is an understanding that you cannot know the world without having a perspective. This does not make all perspectives somehow “equally valid” but instead means that you should test your approaches against reality, observe what works, revise what doesn't, and gradually get better at navigating the world as it actually is.

Cristina Caffarra houdt vrijwel dagelijks ergens haar peptalk. Als het jaar vordert steeds vaker via videoverbinding, want het is allemaal niet meer te bereizen. Ze lanceert in juli haar eigen podcast, Escape Forward. En blijft fanatiek en uitgesproken op LinkedIn. Uit haar posts spreekt wel steeds meer frustratie. „Europese elites vernielen Europa zelf”, schrijft ze bijvoorbeeld als Europeanen begin december geschokt reageren op de Amerikaanse nationale veiligheidsstrategie, die uitgesproken anti-EU is. „Ze praten maar over hun waarden en de geweldige Europese manier van leven, maar hebben niet de minste interesse in het bouwen van een eigen digitale infrastructuur”, schrijft ze.

what it feels like to live through an intelligence transition that does not arrive as a single rupture, but as a rolling transformation, unevenly distributed across institutions, regions, and social strata.

Um einen sozialen Wandel zu bewirken, müssen wir die Kultur verändern. Dafür müssen wir über schrittweise Veränderungen an einflussreichen Punkten nachdenken, die die Dynamik des Systems verändern; in der Hoffnung, dass sich dieser Einfluss positiv auswirkt.

Sozialer Wandel muss auf einer mittleren Ebene stattfinden, wo man sich mit anderen Menschen abstimmt und gemeinsam darüber nachdenkt, wie man konkrete Praktiken anders machen kann. Man fängt an, das eigene Verhalten zu ändern und bringt dann in einem Kollektiv oder einer Bewegung andere Menschen dazu, ihr Verhalten zu hinterfragen.

Viele Theorien, die über den sozialen Wandel nachdenken, verstehen die Gesellschaft wie ein mechanisches System

Grundsätzlich sind wir alle Akteure, weil wir alle die Möglichkeit haben, auf das System Einfluss zu nehmen. Aufgrund der beschriebenen Komplexität können schon kleine Veränderungen einen großen Unterschied machen. Wenn wir uns selbst und uns gegenseitig dazu befähigen, andere Praktiken zu etablieren, kann das bereits zu einem positiven sozialen Wandel führen.

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We conclude that our species must alter longstanding patterns of cultural evolution to avoid environmental disaster and escalating between-group competition.

Anthropogenically driven climate change is occurring too quickly to enable the majority of plant and animal species to respond through genotypic change. Instead, most species can only change their geographic distribution,

There is no place where this cultural hubris is more evident than with the discourse on our present war between economy and Earth.

the recent ruling by the international court of justice last month that basically said two  things. That nations absolutely have an obligation to address climate change

Social Groups and the Problem of Persistence through Change

change happen when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of making a change.

Students Are Telling Us They Feel Invisible. We Should Listen.

The tunnel far below represented Nevada’s latest salvo in a simmering water war: the construction of a $1.4 billion drainage hole to ensure that if the lake ever ran dry, Las Vegas could get the very last drop

George Marshall wrote a book called Don't Even Think About It talks about why our brains are uniquely poorly wired to deal with climate change because of various psychological biases.

hile today, films that focus on activism are common, back then, such movies were outliers and not typically successful at the box office.

When we talk about radical change, it's more than window dressing in the status quo. It means

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this is mandating changes on the human species.

it's an awareness that can create all this in an instant and it can let it go.

For the partnership to be effective, clarity of expectations and roles, commitment to collaboration, and communication are critical.

his negation was as political as it was nutritional ... The loss ofconfidence in America’s political superiority was matched by a loss of faith inits food habits.

Rationing of red meat during the Second World War had increased demandfor poultry

Reilly’s roleas home economist was less a blue-collar job than a highly professionalizedposition for educated women at a time when many women were deniedprofessional status.

Wir fangen in den Sozialwissenschaften und in der politischen Diskussion gerade erst an zu sehen, dass die, die am wenigsten zum Klimawandel beigetragen haben, am meisten darunter leiden oder leiden werden.

Die gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen haben größten Einfluss. Im Alltag müssen wir viele Entscheidungen und Abwägungen treffen, weil Strukturen nicht da sind. Wir müssen permanent mit Dilemmata umgehen: Wenn das Fleisch aus der Massentierhaltung nicht so preiswert wäre, stellte sich nicht die Frage, ob man das oder das teurere Biofleisch nimmt. Oder: Wenn die Bahn pünktlich und preiswerter wäre, würde man nicht überlegen müssen, ob man stattdessen fliegt. Hinzu kommt die Politik der Privatisierung der letzten Jahrzehnte. Da haben sich, beispielsweise bei der Bahn, Privateigentumsformen durchgesetzt. Es gibt kaum noch kommunalen Wohnungsbau. Es liegen kaum noch gemeinsame Infrastrukturen vor. Das hat dazu geführt, dass wir über die letzten 40 Jahre kulturell mehr und mehr auf Eigenverantwortung und Eigennutz gepolt wurden. Das hat beispielsweise zu Ungleichheit in der Vermögensentwicklung geführt. Soziologisch könnte man von einer Phase der Entsolidarisierung sprechen. Das ist jetzt ein Riesenproblem. Denn angesichts des Klimawandels bräuchten wir viel mehr Solidarität. Um die Lasten für den Klimaschutz fair zu verteilen und im Bereich der Klimaanpassung – da kommen Kosten auf uns zu. Wir kämen als Gesellschaft besser durch den Klimawandel und durch andere krisenhafte Zeiten, wenn wir gleicher wären. Ungleiche Gesellschaften sind wesentlich weniger resilient und damit weniger widerstandsfähig.

Das sind immer Bereiche, in denen Gewohnheiten besonders stark ausgeprägt sind. Oder in denen sich ein Anspruchsdenken entwickelt hat, sodass jemand meint, etwas stehe ihm zu.

So kommt es zu dem Phänomen der inneren Buchhaltung. Man sagt sich, dass man ja immer mit dem Fahrrad zur Arbeit fährt, sodass man sich ein, zwei Flüge im Jahr gönnen kann. Das passt natürlich nicht. Mitunter wissen wir auch nicht, wie wir das kognitiv aufeinander beziehen sollen.

Frank Adloff: Das ist ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen, das aus Psychologie und Soziologie bekannt ist: Wir wissen etwas und haben auch Pläne und die Motivation, etwas zu tun – tun es am Ende aber nicht. Das gibt es in vielen alltagspraktischen Bereichen. Wir nehmen uns jedes Jahr zu Neujahr vor, ins Fitness-Studio zu gehen, und es klappt nicht. Beim Klimawandel kommt hinzu, dass Menschen evolutionär am besten auf greifbare und konkrete Gefahren reagieren. Wenn eine Spinne in unserem Haus herumkrabbelt, werden wir sofort aktiv. Doch der Klimawandel ist ein abstraktes Phänomen, das – so glauben wir manchmal – noch in der Zukunft liegt. Es ist vielleicht auch räumlich weiter entfernt. Deshalb handelt man verlangsamt.

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rtists and entrepreneurs share key psychological traits: intrinsic motivation, systems thinking, and comfort with ambiguity.

Nevertheless, stability is as explanation-worthy as change.

if we want to makesignificant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is onestriking at the root."

Angus Deaton describing his ‘change of mind

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This project is a fork of motdotla/dotenv. The difference is this project by default overrides system environment variables.

It's amazing how this farmer sees the demands that other people make with regards to climate change and renewables as demands from other people when climate change will hit farmers and already does harder than anyone they should be demanding it from themselves not feel like it's being forced upon them by others

material organization and access to anticipatory tools such as integrated assessment models also play an important part in the scripting and staging of futuring performances – as do the bodily competences of the practitioners.

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If we cannot properly value the things that matter, how can we build a better future?

BeChange: Sustainability education and leadership development : Assessing the links between inner development and outer change for transformation

Why do we need “individual action” (now more than ever) when what we REALLY need is “systems change?”

it explains in more detail how inner and outer change processes are interconnected

later sold to out-of-state investors who rented them to anyone, including those involved in the production of methamphetamine. The neighborhood became contaminated with folk-meth production, and the city was dubbed the meth capital of Indiana.

"opioid savings cards" to encourage patients to stay on the drug longer, which led to increased sales and profits. Purdue's sales reps were rewarded with bonuses for generating more prescriptions, and the company's executives had no incentive to question excessive sales.

Jin's operation was based in China, and he used encrypted communications and cryptocurrencies to conduct his business. The investigation involved a team of agents from various federal agencies, including the DEA, FBI, and IRS, who worked together to gather evidence and track down Jin's associates in the US. One of these associates, Bin Wang, was arrested in 2017 and later sentenced to six years in prison. The team discovered that Jin was using a company in Tonga to ship his packages, and that he was offering a wide range of synthetic opioids, including carfentanil and U-48800. As the investigation continued, the team found that Jin's operation was linked to numerous death cases across the US, and that he was using his websites to sell drugs to customers in the US. The team eventually identified Jin as Fujing Zheng, a 35-year-old man from Shanghai, and his father, Guanghua Zheng, who was 62. The Zhengs were found to be operating a sophisticated online drug trafficking operation, using encrypted communications and cryptocurrencies to conduct their business. Despite the evidence gathered, the Chinese government refused to extradite the Zhengs to the US, citing a lack of evidence. The US government eventually indicted the Zhengs and shut down their websites, but they remain at large in China. The investigation highlighted the challenges of combating online drug trafficking, particularly when it involves foreign nationals and jurisdictions.

Leroy Steele, a local drug dealer, who had been purchasing fentanyl from a Chinese chemical company using the alias Gordon Jin. Detectives found emails and phone records showing Steele's communication with Jin, who was advertising fentanyl and other illegal drugs on the open internet. The detectives ordered fentanyl from Jin as part of their investigation, which was delivered to them in the mail.

Bryan Stalnaker, had worked for Steele and Robinson, performing odd jobs in exchange for dope and serving as a "tester" for new batches of fentanyl.

Steele's involvement in the drug trade, including protein powder, baby formula, and powdered sugar used to mix with fentanyl, as well as a tub containing Magic Bullet blenders used to mix the drug.

Magic Bullet was often found alongside other blenders and coffee grinders. The ease of access to the Magic Bullet, which was widely available at stores like Target and Walmart for $29.95, made it an attractive tool for amateur mixers.

amateur mixing of fentanyl, often using household blenders like the Magic Bullet, was leading to inconsistent and often deadly doses, highlighting the "failure of content uniformity" on a national scale.

n 2006, a fentanyl outbreak in the US was linked to a Mexican company called Distribuidora Talios, which was raided and shut down, ending the outbreak. The mastermind behind the operation, Ricardo Valdez-Torres, also known as El Cerebro, was arrested and revealed to have a background in business and a history of cooking fentanyl.

Valdez-Torres began producing fentanyl instead, creating a batch of ten kilos. He warned the cartel that the fentanyl needed to be diluted 50:1 to avoid killing users, but this warning was not heeded by street dealers. The fentanyl was sold as heroin, leading to many overdoses and deaths. The case was investigated by Ryan Rapaszky, who later saw the connection between this incident and the rising opioid epidemic in the US.

unknown author named Siegfried, which describes a method for making fentanyl. This method, known as the Siegfried method, was later used by underground chemists to produce the drug. Fentanyl had benefits in medicine, but it also had a darker side, as it could be produced in a laboratory and replaced heroin, generating significant profits with minimal risk. The story then shifts to Dr. Michael Rhodes, a pain doctor in Tennessee, who was prescribing large amounts of OxyContin, a narcotic painkiller made by Purdue Pharma.

Janssen's work on fentanyl and its analogues has had a significant impact on the medical field, but also raises concerns about the potential for abuse and addiction.

Janssen's most notable invention was fentanyl, a powerful painkiller that changed surgical anesthesia. He also synthesized fentanyl analogues, which were molecularly similar to fentanyl but tweaked to be considered separate drugs.

As a result, meth lab seizures decreased, and the cooks and workers from Apatzingán returned to Mexico. The Mexican traffickers then shifted their focus to producing meth in Mexico, taking advantage of the country's access to world chemical markets and compromised authorities. This led to the creation of the modern Mexican meth trade, with traffickers controlling production from raw materials to finished product.

mporting ephedrine from Mexico, setting up labs in California and teaching others how to cook meth.

Methamphetamine was initially produced by biker gangs in the US, but a new recipe using ephedrine was rediscovered in the 1980s. This method was easier and allowed for mass production, democratizing methamphetamine. Donald Stenger, a middle-class, organized individual, played a significant role in popularizing this method. He was eventually caught and died in 1988, but his innovation led to San Diego becoming a major meth production hub.

Mexico's first traffickers were peasant farmers who grew drugs to make a living, but they eventually abandoned their traditional crops to focus on drug trafficking.

realized that this was why overdoses were exploding in Chicago and other cities.

The traffickers invested in the lab, but when they realized the profit potential of fentanyl, they killed Montoya, seized the lab, and took control. This marked a shift in drug trafficking, with the Sinaloa cartel discovering fentanyl and wanting more of it. The lab had enough ingredients to produce sixty kilos of fentanyl, which could lead to millions of street doses.

The project, known as "the Project," is led by a chemist known as "the Brain," who is producing fentanyl, a painkiller that is far more powerful than morphine. The fentanyl is being manufactured in a lab in Mexico and is being sold on the streets of Chicago, leading to a rash of overdoses and deaths. Rapaszky's investigation leads him to uncover the truth about the Project and the Sinaloan traffickers' involvement in the fentanyl trade.

London cab drivers have a hippocampus that's part of the brand in charge of uh of memory certain kinds of memory which is uh 20% more dense or more heavy than normal people why because they have to learn the location of like thousands tens of thousands of streets

Most companies where I worked have a history of rebuilding their applications every 3 to 5 years, some even 2 years. This has extremely high costs, it has a major impact on how successful the application is, and therefore how successful the company is, besides being extremely frustrating for developers to work with a messy code base, and making them want to leave the company. A serious company, with a long-term vision, cannot afford any of it, not the financial loss, not the time loss, not the reputation loss, not the client loss, not the talent loss.

The city's elite was forced to acknowledge the poor as equals, and the government recognized the need to treat the comuneros (community leaders) with respect and give them responsibilities and opportunities.

The city's traditional industries declined, leading to economic dislocation among the poor. Many rural migrants settled on precarious slopes, leading to a high level of illegal housing settlements. The distribution of income in Medellín became increasingly unequal, with the wealthy elite holding a disproportionate amount of power and wealth.

Pablo Escobar, became cultural icons, and their extravagant lifestyles fascinated many.

new era of violence, conspicuous consumption, and social change emerged.

Beauty queens who might have expected to make a brilliant match with a businessman or politician instead became molls and mistresses of drug lords.

Beggars disappeared from the streets, and petty thievery declined as unemployed youth found work in the drug syndicate.