Agreed. Nuclear accidents may have made some bits around Chernobyl and Fukushima unpleasant, but coal and oil have ruined the entire planet.
People simply aren't rational. It has been so hard for me to accept that.
People simply aren't rational. It has been so hard for me to accept that.
You raise an important point: human irrationality is as real as climate change. And probably more challenging.
We might more quickly tackle climate change by simultaneously tackling human irrationality.
It's a shame that more of the best and brightest minds don't enter the (messy)fields of behavioral science - where progress is much less impressive of late than in technology IMHO.