Listen "The Climate Game"
Episode Synopsis
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, he’s joined by Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and author of ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’ and by Professor Hannah Fry, senior lecturer at University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, co-presenter of Rutherford and Fry on Radio 4 and author of ‘Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine.’What can the game rock, paper scissors teach us about preventing a climate catastrophe? Producer: Imogen Walford
Editor: Emma RipponThink with Pinker is produced in partnership with The Open University.
Editor: Emma RipponThink with Pinker is produced in partnership with The Open University.
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