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Stuart Capstick
@stucap.bsky.social
Environmental social scientist | Climate-terrified | Haphazard activist | Recovering academic | World-weary melanchole
Yes that sentence triggered the same reaction in me too. This is the kind of underhand, doublespeak, contradictory, bullshit rhetoric being used to gloss over the erosion of a stable climate. Neatly packed up and signed cursorily, "Department of Transport".
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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We’re stepping up to show the government that thousands of us are not backing down on stopping Rosebank.

Send your personal message calling for this disaster project to be stopped 👇

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Decision time: Tell Keir to #StopRosebank
This is the moment we've been building towards: it's final decision time for the UK Government. Equinor is trying to get the new Rosebank oil field re-approved. It's up to us all to convince the Gover...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reposted by Stuart Capstick
It is plain to see that the enormous Rosebank oil field is not compatible with a safe climate.

Every new oil field makes the world a more dangerous place, and Rosebank alone will create more pollution than the world’s 28 lowest income countries produce in a year.
October 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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See 👆 — Conclusion on aviation: "Rather than gambling on future breakthroughs that may never materialise, policymakers should pursue immediate demand-reduction strategies & support a just transition …"

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October 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I'd be interested to return to this question and sketch out a few other suggestions, but maybe this prompts a couple of ideas for now.
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is a slightly rushed thread on a few things that come to mind - helpful approaches tend to be scattered across many different disciplines which makes the subject interesting but hard-going!
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Also take a look at @steveclimate.bsky.social work on leadership
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This book by some thoughtful environmental psychologists including @karenrshamann.bsky.social is worth a look: www.wandel-werk.org/media/pages/...
www.wandel-werk.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Climate Outreach did a nice video on the personal/system aspects of this: climateoutreach.org/reports/unep...
Communicating lifestyle change (chapter in the UNEP Emissions Gap Report) - Climate Outreach
We're proud to have coordinated and lead-authored a chapter in the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report (EGR) 2020.
climateoutreach.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We also touched on some ideas about personal-societal dynamics in a chapter for UNEP Emissions Gap report back in 2025. www.un-ilibrary.org/content/book...
(though it was about other things too)
Bridging the gap – the role of equitable low-carbon lifestyles | United Nations iLibrary
Minimizing the impacts of climate change requires rapid transitions in people’s lifestyles and how we organize our societies, institutions and infrastructure. This is underscored by the fact that hous...
www.un-ilibrary.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Social/behavioural contagion is also intriguing. If two houses within a neighbourhood install a new solar PV system, the resulting peer influence prompts one additional household to do likewise.
www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Spatia...
[PDF] Spatial patterns of solar photovoltaic system adoption: The influence of neighbors and the built environment | Semantic Scholar
The diffusion of new technologies is often mediated by spatial and socioeconomic factors. This article empirically examines the diffusion of an important renewable energy technology: residential solar...
www.semanticscholar.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
One compelling way 'individual' action has led to social change is cultural shift on plant-based diets. Little by little, person to household to trend to normalization --> measurable impact: in the UK emissions from diet down 28% over ten years.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Trends in UK meat consumption: analysis of data from years 1–11 (2008–09 to 2018–19) of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey rolling programme
Despite the overall reduction in meat intake, reaching meat-consumption targets that align with sustainable diets will require a substantial acceleration of this trend.
www.thelancet.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I did a thread on the old place that outlined some of the examples and thinking from the chapter. Rather than link to it I'll copy/paste a couple of the examples included here...
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We published a chapter in Greta Thunberg's Climate Book that looked at some of this:
October 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Thanks for the mention Genevieve! I'll respond with some thoughts now...
October 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM