The Role of Social Pressure in Climate Change

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In a conservative circle, there might be pressure to support certain causes and not other causes. If they grow up in a progressive circle, maybe, you know, climate change is considered really important and they should work on it. But very often I think the details of these theories are not that fleshed out. And so one thing I hope for is that by giving people better thinking tools, you can say, okay, yes, you're being socially influenced into what you care about but given that you care about climate change, can you think more effectively about how to achieve it?

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Jacob is the only rationalist with an MBA. He writes Putanumonit.com and is famous for bringing the idea of decision matrices to the pages of the Economist and the New York Times. Jacob is Russian-Israeli and is currently living in Brooklyn with his wife and two guinea pigs. Follow him on Twitter at @yashkaf.

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