November 2009
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Taming Our Inner Experts →
Or, more accurately, taming the delusional lunatics that hijack our brains and blind us to uncertainty, complexity, change, etc.
The title above is a link to another thought about irrational behavior. This one from Seth Godin.
“When a meat-based entrée is being served, and people are offered a vegetarian...”
– From a Nov 16 blog post by Marc Gunther.
People behave irrationally. We understand behavior better and better. Gunther suggests that we use it to the planet’s advantage.
Here’s a link to BECC 2009. Good to know that people are talking about the right things.
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If This Were A Football Game
A few weeks ago, I heard KPCC’s Patt Morisson interview author, thinker, and merry prankster Stewart Brand about a book he wrote: Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. I appreciated SB’s impromptu metaphoring, so here’s a link to the interview, and here’s my transcription of its metaphorical core… PM: If this were…dealing with global warming and...
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Yachts, Jets, Mansions, and Carbon Neutrality? →
Click that title for some heavily niche green internetting. The Belgrave Trust, they call it.
I filled out a hypothetical profile as a touring rock star with four semi-fancy homes and a hybrid car, and, according to Belgrave Trust’s math, I would have to pay USD 120 per month to offset my carbon expenditure. Worth noting that the site did not ask me about diet. I’m pretty sure I...
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“If you think like a cold-blooded economist instead of a warm-hearted humanist,...”
– That’s from Freakonomics authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, in their new book, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance.
I read the quote in Elizabeth Kolbert’s book review in The New Yorker. I agree with EK...