1/6: @Gardiner_Beth - you might find this @guardianeco piece interesting if you haven't seen it.
#AirQuality #ClimateChange #COVID19 #evolution #prosocial
theguardian.com/environment/ng…
2/6: There's a huge overlap in human actions contributing to both poor outdoor air quality & climate change. There's also a degree of overlap w/ human actions contributing to pandemics (as well as our ability, or lack thereof, to react to said pandemics).
3/6: So much of contemporary society, of our constructed environments, are mismatched w/ how our evolutionary history designed our physiological, psychological, & social/cultural systems to operate most effectively. That is if one defines "effectively" as equitable access...
4/6: to a healthy life & long term social stability.
If we don't mindfully make changes to avoid these multilevel evolutionary mismatches then we'll continue to let evolution take us where we don't want to go. W/ the eventual destination being social collapse & great suffering.
5/6: Step things up AEC Industry - we need to engage in some serious education, advocacy, activism, & exercising what political/economic clout we have.
As I recently heard Beth Karlin, Founder & CEO of the See Change Institute, say, politicians/elected officials need to have...
6/6: some indication from the public, particularly those w/ some measure of influence, that such actions are supported. They need cover to take action, & then we need to support those actions when they are taken.
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