Can Coronavirus drive behavior change? Part 1: The Environment and Global Warming | Insights for Learning and Development

As the UK begins to emerge from lockdown, Saffron asks if the global crisis is enough to make us change our ways when it comes to the environment. What is it that drives our behaviours and makes us creatures of habit – even to our own destruction? And finally: how do these findings give us insight on how behaviour change can be addressed in developing learning solutions?

Our lives have been altered in ways we couldn’t have imagined. The global Coronavirus crisis has changed the course of human behaviour abruptly, and nobody is sure when things will return to normal – or what normal might become. That’s not news to you. But have you considered the impact that Coronavirus is having on the world around us?

Despite the pleasing symbolism of trees acting like lungs, plants can’t get the coronavirus. And neither can geological features, or most animals. Yet all these things are being dramatically affected – indirectly. Why is that? Because of how we, as humans, have changed our behaviour. Much of the world’s economy is based on trade, travel, and consumption.

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