Droughts, heat waves, floods, air or plastic pollution… The planet is suffering and most of us are aware of the harmful effects of some of our behaviors on the environment. Why then do we find it so difficult to change them? Blame it on our brains, which can both make us feel very anxious about the state of the world and cause us to ignore what we can do to improve it…
“ If I had not been born, the state of the planet would be exactly the same », we sometimes say to ourselves. And if I don’t buy that T-shirt, if I don’t throw away that greasy paper, if I don’t buy that car, someone else will. This form of self-cleansing is explained by “responsibility dilution,” a well-known mechanism in social psychology that can be summarized as follows. since everyone is responsible for resource consumption, no one is actually responsible. Why, then, make an effort?
Source: Le Figaro
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