Our Climate crisis is just one of many other symptoms of overshoot and overshoot is our behavioural crisis.
In this paper we explore what we consider to be three critical drivers in the creation and continuation of the human behavioural crisis.
The behaviours behind overshoot are now actively promoted and exacerbated by social, economic and political norms largely through the intentional, almost completely unimpeded exploitation of human psychological predispositions and biases.
“‘The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of’. (Edward Bernays Sigmund Freuds nephew)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504231201372?fbclid=IwAR2MwoVN5AgCa8ba-fjY60qcJCMKt 08Tw3_LucXUpOTskjzgIZCTKxDAhZ0
Freshwater for life 