@manuelsuter.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Lund University Research in Behavioral Ecological Economics, Sufficiency and Post-Growth Currently working on attractive future visions considering planetary boundaries and citizens views.
Our newly published study suggests that a cognitive bias toward additive climate solutions (e.g., buy electric car) may limit how visible and widely adopted high-impact subtractive strategies like flying less or driving less become.
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♻️ New paper in Journal of Environmental Psychology 🙌
We examined subtraction neglect — the tendency to prioritize additive over subtractive climate strategies (e.g., buying an EV vs. flying less) when thinking about effective personal actions. Check it out! 🙃
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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy...
"That's just how it is."
Read the full study (open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
06.06.2025 07:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🧠 Food for thought: If a small card on a restaurant table can reduce waste by 16 percentage points, imagine what we could do at scale.
06.06.2025 07:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Implications:
🔹 Restaurants can reduce food waste (and costs) with simple, low-cost interventions like table prompts or messages on menus.
🔹 These changes don’t hurt the guest experience.
🟢 Key finding: Making guests aware of food waste reduced the likelihood of leaving food behind (self-reported food waste by guests) by 16 percentage points compared to the control group.
06.06.2025 07:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We tested two interventions:
1️⃣ A gentle reminder placed on dining tables to raise awareness of food waste.
2️⃣ The same reminder, but with added guidance on portion sizes.
Around 75% of food waste in the hospitality industry is avoidable.
Our recent field experiment in a Copenhagen à la carte restaurant explored whether informational nudges can reduce food waste at the table. 🧵
✨New paper out ✨
What are effects of scientists engaging in climate protests?
Our findings suggest that it does not compromising their credibility (across political affiliations), and that such actions may have less impact than one would like to believe: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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We asked 3,000+ researchers from 101 countries if global green growth (i.e. sustainable economic growth) is possible. 59% said yes. 👇
Green growth endorsement was linked to beliefs that economic growth is key to human well-being. Thanks to @manuelsuter.bsky.social for leading this study! 👏
"[Tend] to agree that economic growth is essential to increase people’s well-being."
"tend to disagree that green growth can keep global warming below 2 °C"
But the IPCC states that even 2°C is considered dangerous & poses a significant threat to human well-being 🤔
Something doesn't add up!
Link to Journal Article: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
11.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📄 The article has been published in the journal PLOS Climate (open access, see link below). A big thank you to my fantastic co-authors Noel Strahm, Till Bundeli, Kaja Kaessner, Viktoria Cologna, Oreskes Naomi, and Sebastian Berger.
11.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🌍 Our findings suggest that, despite its widespread political popularity, there is no global scientific consensus on the viability of global green growth.
11.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🔹Green growth endorsement was most strongly assosciated with the belief that sustained economic growth is essential for human well-being. This may imply that green growth beliefs among researchers are influenced by ideology.
11.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🔹Even among green growth believers, there are considerable differences with regard to the assessment of the feasibility of key conditions for green growth like absolute decoupling of economic growth from resource and energy use.
11.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🔹There are large variations in green growth endorsement across scientific disciplines, with the highest green growth endorsement by researchers from the field Economics, Econometrics and Finance (74%) and the lowest from researchers in the field Earth and Planetary Sciences (41%).
11.04.2025 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0📊 What we found:
🔹59% of respondents believe green growth is achievable on a global scale.
🔹Economists are more optimistic (69%) than non-economists (51%).
Do researchers believe in global green growth (i.e. the idea that continued economic growth can be achieved sustainably)?
We explored this question in a new study, surveying 3,028 researchers from 101 countries — all of whom have published in leading peer-reviewed journals.
Manuel SuterManuel Suter • 1st • 1st Research in Behavioral & Ecological Economics (Dr. rer. oec. | PhD)Research in Behavioral & Ecological Economics (Dr. rer. oec. | PhD) 1h • Edited • 1 hour ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Do researchers believe in global green growth (i.e. the idea that continued economic growth can be achieved sustainably)? We explored this question in a new study, surveying 3,028 researchers from 101 countries — all of whom have published in leading peer-reviewed journals. 📊 What we found: 🔹59% of respondents believe green growth is achievable on a global scale. 🔹Economists are more optimistic (69%) than non-economists (51%). 🔹There are large variations in green growth endorsement across scientific disciplines, with the highest green growth endorsement by researchers from the field Economics, Econometrics and Finance (74%) and the lowest from researchers in the field Earth and Planetary Sciences (41%). 🔹Even among green growth believers, there are considerable differences with regard to the assessment of the feasibility of key conditions for green growth like absolute decoupling of economic growth from resource and energy use. 🔹Green growth endorsement was most strongly assosciated with the belief that sustained economic growth is essential for human well-being. This may imply that green growth beliefs among researchers are influenced by ideology. 🌍 Our findings suggest that, despite its widespread political popularity, there is no global scientific consensus on the viability of global green growth. 📄 The article has been published in the journal PLOS Climate (open access, see link below). A big thank you to my fantastic co-authors Noel Strahm, Till Bundeli, Kaja Kaessner, Viktoria Cologna, Oreskes Naomi, and Sebastian Berger. Link to Journal Article: https://lnkd.in/eRDqaN7A hashtag#GreenGrowth hashtag#Degrowth hashtag#Agrowth hashtag#Sustainability hashtag#EnvironmentalPolicy hashtag#ClimatePolicy ha…
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Ridiculously interesting study - who in the research community beliefs in, supports or rejects 'green growth' as a model?
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
New research by @manuelsuter.bsky.social and colleagues:
"Green growth beliefs: Investigating factors associated with expert opinions on green growth"
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
@colognaviktoria.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social
The study is open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
24.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🤔 What are your thoughts? How can we shift societal narratives around consumption?
24.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0💡If people are to be motivated to consume less, framing sufficiency as a personal gain—rather than just an environmental necessity—could be a more effective strategy.
24.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2🔸 For all sufficiency policies surveyed, approval was on average greater than disapproval. In our U.S. sample, 49 % describe themselves as conservative or very conservative and 63 % have household incomes of less than 60,000 USD per year.
24.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🔸 Across all groups, around 90 % of participants rated reduced consumption as effective or very effective to increase the communicated sufficiency benefits.
🔸 The different sufficiency benefit framings showed no influence on the support of sufficiency policies.
🔹No evidence was found for an effect on sufficiency behavior by communicating benefits for nature (e.g. climate change mitigation or cleaner land, sea, and air).
24.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🔹Analyses using sample weights suggest that communicating societal benefits of sufficiency (e.g. a more balanced and caring society) may also increase sufficiency behavior.
24.02.2025 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
