How Environmental Imagination Exercises Lead to Behavioral and Political Action with Joshua D. Wright

<p>Are you getting sick of messages of climate doom and dystopia? There’s another way to talk about the future.</p> <p>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” –&nbsp;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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Find his paper here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272494420306885</p> <p>Sign up to my group, The Imagine Project at <a href="//katiepatrick.com/imagine" 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.</p> <p>I'd love to learn of your thoughts, ideas, artworks about imagining an ecologically harmonious future. Send me a DM or email at kp@helloworlde.com.</p> <p><a href="https://amzn.to/2Z4jivL" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get a copy of How to Save the World on Amazon</a></p> <p>Sign up to <a href="https://katiepatrick.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">katiepatrick.com</a> for more free environmental gamification and behavior design resources.</p> <p>Follow me on <a href="https://twitter.com/katiepatrick" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter @katiepatrick</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/katiepatrickhello/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram @katiepatrickhello</a>, and <a href="