What is a political psychiatrist?

You can't focus on the demand side of sustainability while ignoring induced demand. It's a structural problem. Placing blame on individuals and urging them to behave better is the all-in strategy we've been going with for 30 years.

Again important, but thinking that climate change can be solved only by changing consumption behaviours at the individual level is fantasy stuff. Your example is a good one, because no one was shopping at this Shien store before it opened

It ignores the broader context in which the far-right controls the political discourse in part because the centre/centre left ceded it to them. I think that failing to link climate change to material concerns and confining it to a bougie problem is the fault of those sides of politics.

I agree with you that issues importance is itself important (although siloing these things is missing the point), but I don't agree that politeness politics is going to do much about that.

Mass resonance? The lack of action on climate change is not due to a lack of public support for it. It's a problem of the ruling class defending a planet-killing status quo, among other things. Decorum isn't going to do anything to solve that problem.

Widening the tent is not even a new political idea. It's just the dimension upon which you widen the tent that is contested. It's pretty uncontroversial on the left for that dimension to be power - widen the tent to include those with low individual power i.e. almost everyone.

Sensible technocratic centrism on climate is thinly-veiled fatalism.

Outstanding

It could well be a better option, even accepting the limitations of that approach and that it doesn't solve every problem.

I'd also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments and feedback

These findings may also have implications for research that focuses on psychological similarity of extreme right and extreme left respondents. We recommend opting for polynomial tests, rather than assuming linearity or U-shaped distributions when correlating left-right with other measures

Midpoint respondents on the left-right item can't be assumed to be so-called political moderates or centrists, even in surveys where other response options (e.g. "don't know") are given to participants. Although providing such options is probably better than nothing.

We then conducted Latent Profile Analyses on midpoint respondents, finding profiles broadly reflecting varieties of populist attitudes (exclusionary and valence populists) along with more centrist profiles.

We found non-linearity (W & M shapes) in relationships between the left-right (lib-con) item and a range of political attitudes, in particular pol. systems attitudes and attitudes towards immigrants, such that midpointers scored higher/lower than what a "genuine centrist" account would suggest