1.0resiliencehttps://www.resilience.orgCan we save the world without free will?rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="JBmUj6u7uc"><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-11-17/can-we-save-the-world-without-free-will/">Can we save the world without free will?</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-11-17/can-we-save-the-world-without-free-will/embed/#?secret=JBmUj6u7uc" width="600" height="338" title="“Can we save the world without free will?” — resilience" data-secret="JBmUj6u7uc" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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https://www.resilience.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Black_Lives_Matter_protest_-_DPLA_-_1ad212290a31ac957dab2ffa0cdc05eeCROP.jpg762510Many articles on environmental topics are secular homilies, bristling with shoulds and shouldn’ts. Don’t use a gasoline-powered leaf blower. Buy an electric car instead of a gas-powered car. ... If you don’t behave right, we will all go to climate hell. But what if we humans actually don’t have free will—the ability to act without constraints of circumstances, necessity, or fate? Is it possible to organize mass behavioral change in its absence?