Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Article in Nature suggests 'high-carbon addictions' such as using your iPhone can be 'treated' the same way as drug addiction
An article published today in Nature Climate Change likens drug and alcohol addictions to the use of central heating, air conditioning, international air travel, and meat consumption, and proposes creation of a new field called 'neuro-conservation' to treat these "high-carbon" "addictions" using the same techniques used to treat drug addicts. According to the article, "The parallels between holding back on another whisky or switching off a smartphone are clear, but could the research on temporal discounting in alcohol or drug dependency be usefully transposed to conservation? [Neuro-conservationist] Zald thinks it could."
Posted by MS at 8:41 PM