Being Green Doesn't Mean Sacrificing Fun... or Cutting Out Meat

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We often think of fighting climate change as a drain on our happiness - it'll mean sacrificing the things we love, like air travel or eating hamburgers. But researchers Jiaying Zhao and Liz Dunn have pioneered the idea of "Happy Climate" that shows us ways in which doing good for the planet can make us feel great.

Changing how we fly, drive, shop and eat in very small ways can make us enjoy our travel, our friends, our wardrobes and, yes, even our steaks, more than ever before.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	Hey Happiness Lab listeners.
0:11.0	Before we get to this new episode, I wanted to let you know that you can
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0:30.0	F.M slash plus.
0:40.0	I would just kind of get this glare of like, why are you killing the earth?
0:41.0	And that wasn't a good feeling.
0:43.2	Psychologist Liz Dunn once had a boyfriend who liked to remind her to turn off the lights.
0:48.0	A lot.
0:49.0	That actually made me almost take an opposing stance.
0:52.8	I certainly wasn't like a climate change denier but I was like oh you know
0:56.3	technology's gonna figure this out.
0:58.1	Liz is no longer with that guy.
1:00.0	Getting scolded and shamed it turns, isn't great for romantic relationships.
1:03.7	He's not my husband to not marry him.
1:05.4	But these harsh practices aren't great for motivating sustainable behaviors either.
1:09.4	So what's another tactic for slowing global warming?
1:12.1	Maybe we should scare folks into taking action.
1:14.7	One of my friends, she just sort of imagines
1:16.6	like her daughters floating alone in a raft,
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