A friend writes: Back on July 31, 2015 you posted about “Even the Elites Can’t Escape the Global Community, Living As It Does on One Small Planet.” You mentioned going to your next college reunion in June 2017.
Tag: behavioral economics
Do We Care About the Environment? It Depends on How the Issues Are Framed
Here’s an article the theme of which I’ve seen before, called behavioral economics. In essence, people’s reaction to a certain subject, and their buying behavior, is to a huge degree a function of the words used to describe it. I’m reminded of …
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Why We Can't Stop Destroying Our Planet
Here’s a wonderful article that begins with a question: Since it’s so clear that our civilization faces several different types of existential threats due to its overconsumption of finite and increasingly scarce resources, why is essentially nothing being done about …
Tagged with: Amos Tversky, behavioral economics, civilization faces existential threats, Daniel Kahneman, deviations from rationality, environment, human behavior, Jason Scorse, MAHB, Monterey Institute for International Studies, overconsumption of resources, Paul Ehrlich, public policy, Stanford University, The Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior, uncontrolled human activities
