{"id":17008,"date":"2021-11-03T19:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T02:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17008"},"modified":"2021-11-04T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T00:23:17","slug":"2021-11-03-the-enogma-of-climate-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17008","title":{"rendered":"2021-11-03 The Enigma Of Climate Inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/youtu.be\/WDWhjSUu8UY<\/a><\/p>\n

This hour long video is summed up by the first slide,<\/p>\n

<< Main messages<\/strong><\/p>\n

– It’s complicated!<\/p>\n

– Humans really don’t understand human behaviour.<\/p>\n

– How we ‘act out’ in life springs from a complex interplay of nature and nurture.<\/p>\n

– From the perspective of the public good’, H. sapiens<\/em> is not primarily a rational species.<\/p>\n

– Public policy is strongly tainted by cognitive and behavioral traits that operate beneath consciousness. We cannot, by definition, be aware of them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– These traits were advantageous earlier in human evolution, but have become dangerously maladaptive in the complex techno-industrial environment humans themselves have created.<\/p>\n

– One result: Global society will miss the Paris climate accord target of limiting global warming to <1.5 C\u00b0 (likely also <2.0 C\u00b0).<\/p>\n

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At time 11:30<\/p>\n

<< Our dominant social construct is a very bad map<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neoliberal economics, the entrenched economic narrative of modern techno-industrial (MTI) society, is simplistically reductionist. It contains no useful information about the ecological or social systems with which the economy interacts in the real world.<\/em> Some crucial assumptions:<\/p>\n

– the economy is separate from, and essentially independent, of the biophysical environment’.<\/p>\n

– human ingenuity (efficiency and technology) can create substitutes for any potentially limiting natural resource.<\/p>\n

– ethical and moral considerations are irrelevant to economic analysis; damage to ecosystems or communities are mere ‘externalities.’
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Description:<\/p>\n

<< Day 9 – William E. Rees: The Enigma of Climate Inaction – On the Human Nature of Policy Failu… >><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/youtu.be\/WDWhjSUu8UY This hour long video is summed up by the first slide, << Main messages – It’s complicated! – Humans really don’t understand human behaviour. – How we ‘act out’ in life springs from a complex interplay of nature and nurture. – From the perspective of the public good’, H. sapiens is not primarily a <\/p>\n

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