Climate change is the test: are we just animals consuming resources until we expire, or are our higher minds exceptional enough to overcome our ecological overshoot?
Category: Cognitive Psychology
David Barash And The Value Of A Good Argument
There is little value in a good argument regarding climate change. Even a complete explanation isn’t enough to convince people to give up what must be given up.
The Hidden Threat of Polycrisis
The greatest danger from climate change is the social stress. Dr. Daniel Hoyer studies Polycrisis: how multiple crises converge to create something worse.
Why Didn’t We See This Coming? Part 2
Our stable, profitable lifestyle is unsustainable. Changing it is scary. But the risks of failing to do it are certain and worse.
The Cage Match Of Ideas
Each of us has a responsibility to hold our opinions and beliefs up to the light and force them to defend themselves in the cage match of ideas.
Slavish Genes and Polarization
Our very nature, the competitive force that allowed us to survive a hostile world, now unavoidably leads us to consume straight to our own oblivion.