If Humans Are So Intelligent, Why Are We Destroying Our Only Home?

The answer to Dr. Goodall seems to be that intelligence is only one of the characteristics that makes humankind unique on this planet. Into the soup, we need to add extra ingredients: especially greed and cruelty.

From there, we can sprinkle on a bit of cognitive bias. We like to think we’re completely rational agents, but that’s far from the truth.