[MCN] "We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency..."

[Lance Olsen]

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Published: 27 May 2026
Leveraging agency for climate change mitigation

Charlotte A. Kukowski <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Charlotte_A_-Kukowski-Aff1>, Kristian S. Nielsen <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Kristian_S_-Nielsen-Aff2>, Swen J. Kühne <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Swen_J_-K_hne-Aff3>, Clover Hogan <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Clover-Hogan-Aff4>, Sander van der Linden <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Sander-Linden-Aff1>, Lorraine Whitmarsh <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Lorraine-Whitmarsh-Aff5>, Grit Zwingenberger <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Grit-Zwingenberger-Aff6>, Felix Creutzig <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Felix-Creutzig-Aff7-Aff8> & Kimberly A. Nicholas <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#auth-Kimberly_A_-Nicholas-Aff9> 
Nature Climate Change <https://www.nature.com/nclimate> volume 16, pages627–629 (2026) Cite this article <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02644-7#citeas>
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Climate debates often frame individual behaviour and systems change as distinct pathways to action. 

We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems, and that this agency should be actively leveraged to achieve meaningful climate change mitigation.

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“We found that preferable and harmful temperatures are similar for humans, cattle, pigs, poultry, fish, and agricultural crops.”

"Increases in exposure, frequency, and duration of stressful and lethal temperatures increase the physiological stress and bodily damage suffered by humans, livestock, poultry, fish, and agricultural crops.”

Senthold Asseng, Dietrich Spänkuch, Ixchel M Hernandez-Ochoa, Jimena Laporta. 

The upper temperature thresholds of life. THE LANCET Planetary Health, Open Access Published:June, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00079-6 

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“What can be said with assurance is that there is a unique and nearly ubiquitous compound, with the empirical formula H296o O1480 C1480 N16 P1.8 S called living matter. 

Its synthesis, on an oxidized and uncarboxylated earth, is the most intricate feat of chemical engineering ever performed –-- and the most delicate operation that people have ever 
tampered with.”

Edward S. Deevey, Jr. Mineral Cycles.
Scientific American, September 1970

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