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  1. Metabolic Anomaly Report 00-Beta
    Thermal scan: negative. Bio-signature: negative. Threat assessment: negative.

    It triggered 4 seconds later.
    Our instruments weren't wrong. They just weren't measuring the right thing.

    #LexiconEntity #OutpostLog #Bestiary #Lore #CreativeWriting #GameDesign #TTRPG #FieldResearch

  2. It was great to present my work on fatalism and climate action in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, in a session on "Emotions in the transition to a no-carbon society" at the Global Tipping Points conference @uniexeter.

    I talked about high levels of fatalism - beliefs that the future is predetermined and that human agency is pontless - in Bougainville, how this already reduces climate action, and wonder how this could be a barrier to harnessing potential positive tipping points in populations truly left behind.

    Here are my slides 👉docs.google.com/presentation/d

    I also learned from @laurafoggrogers the importance of triggering positive emotions to fully engage the population at large, while Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive proposes a very interesting paradigm combining fear, outrage and desire, drawn from her book "The language of climate politics". I think everyone agrees that one size-fits-all type of communication is not optimal and that tailoring the message to the recipient is very important.

    #DrJohnRowlatt discussed about how to best engage the UK population, and elderly people in particular, to switch to low-carbon heating systems. @larasningrum_dianty talked about the potential for narratives of hope in low-income countries and in general.

    I look forward to continuing this discussion. 🙏 co-panelists & attendants.

    #ClimateChange #ClimateAdaptation #Fatalism #Bougainville #PapuaNewGuinea #Melanesia #Research #FieldResearch