Want to produce less waste in 2023? Buy greener products? Support eco-friendly causes? There is, of course, an app for that.
Want to produce less waste in 2023? Buy greener products? Support eco-friendly causes?Actually, there are well over 100 apps, for both iPhones and Androids, that claim to help users fight the effects of climate change in some way. Many are buggy, little-used or outdated, since most apps are made by startups that often don’t have support to follow through at scale. Some are little more than greenwashing, using environmentally-friendly claims to hawk products.
None will save the planet. But Joe Ávari, a psychology professor at USC who researches how people make decisions related to climate change, said apps can help people make some positive changes. Users might be inspired to compost for the first time, or eat less meat, or air-dry their laundry. And Ávari believes any choices that are better for the planet are worth celebrating.
A lot of personal choices that could have more substantial impacts on the climate — such as transitioning to an electric vehicle or installing a heat pump at home — are also complex and require people to make tradeoffs, Ávari pointed out. “It’s a slightly nuanced argument,” she said, “but any expert will tell you that there are too many initiatives in the climate tech sector where people love silver bullets.”
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