The Climate Game
How flaws in the way we think make it harder to tackle climate change. Professor Steven Pinker, Bill Gates and Hannah Fry discuss the psychology of judgement and decision making.
How flaws in the way we think make it harder to tackle climate change. In his guide to thinking better, Professor Steven Pinker examines how global warming is also a problem in the psychology of judgement and decision making.
To search for solutions, heβs joined by Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and author of βHow to Avoid a Climate Disasterβ and by Professor Hannah Fry, senior lecturer at University College Londonβs Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, co-presenter of Rutherford and Fry on Radio 4 and author of βHello World: How to be human in the age of the machine.β
What can the game rock, paper scissors teach us about preventing a climate catastrophe?
Producer: Imogen Walford
Editor: Emma Rippon
Think with Pinker is produced in partnership with The Open University.
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- Thu 30 Dec 2021 16:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 2 Jan 2022 23:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Think with Pinker
Professor Steven Pinker's guide to thinking better.
