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#Bookmark The July 2024 Global Environmental Journal has published Catherine Cherry + Caroline Verfuerth, PhD + Christina Demski's peer-reviewed findings that "Discourses of climate inaction undermine public support for 1.5 °C lifestyles". The 5 top #Highlights of their findings: i) We conducted unique public visioning workshops on radical low-carbon lifestyles. ii) We found strong public support for many low-carbon lifestyle strategies and futures. iii) Narratives of inaction create a public discourse of delay, undermining this support. iv) Narratives of inaction held emotional resonances that evoked defensive responses. v) Countering this public discourse of delay is essential for meaningful climate action. Three #Takeaways: i) We need to ELEVATE the Public Discourse on #ClimateAction ii) We need to constantly search-out and HONOR #ClimateAction Change-Makers...especially in the Public Discourse iii) We need to replace DarkMoney with Decency, Resilience, Transparency and Regenerative _ _ _ _ _ _ (fill in the blanks). #MoveTheMoney #CircularEconomy #YesWeCan cc: Youth4planet, ChangeNOW, EU Climate Pact Benelux, We Don't Have Time