If we were to reduce the speed limit by 20 miles an hour, just that act alone would be a greater impact on our emissions than going and driving all electric cars. Ilose so much more energy just going 70 instead of 50. And yet people choose to go 70. They don't want to go 50. We want to get to where we are going faster because time is money in our economic system. But u so so getting back to what we were talking about before, let me understand these two trends. So one thing you could do is change from the individual decision maker who externalizes all those costs to the collective decision maker that actually experiences all those costs. What's an example of
On this episode we meet with ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration, Josh Farley.
Farley explores the importance of human cooperation in a modern superstructure that incentivizes competition. What role will cooperation play in helping us solve our largest existential problems?
Farley explains the critical social dilemma humans face: How can we grapple with the paradox that individuals are better served to act selfishly, but cooperation among individuals makes everyone better off?
Additionally, Professor Farley helps us distinguish the difference between how a system works, and how we can understand and participate in changing a system.
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