There are some really promising things that are happening on the political front, which give me hope. One activist I found super inspiring is a mechanical engineer by training or engineer by training and now is climate obvious. He goes to these public utility commissioned hearings when they're deciding what type of power plant to build. On average $10,000 to run for something gets a new person elected. That's the shocking. Very efficient compared to the Get Out To Vote campaigns,. It takes about $300 to flip a vote.
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What are "shed" and "cake" projects? And how can you avoid "shed" projects? What is the "jobs to be done" framework? What is the "theory of change" framework? How can people use statistics (or statistical intuition) in everyday life? How accurate are climate change models? How much certainty do scientists have about climate change outcomes? What are some promising strategies for mitigating and reversing climate change?
Cassandra Xia (@CassandraXia) is the creator of Adventures in Cognitive Biases and co-founder of the non-profit Work on Climate. She is fascinated by how human biases affect the actions we take as a society and how to hack human psychology to get the change that we want. She is previously affiliated with the MIT Media Lab, MIT CS department, and Google AI. More of Cassandra's work can be found at cassandraxia.com and workonclimate.org.
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