If we don't reach net zero carbon emissions in 10, 20 years, then we're going to blow past the 1.5 degrees Celsius thresholds that we've given ourselves and the world is going to warm a lot more than that. It's pretty uncertain because once we reach these kind of like dangerous high levels, it kicks off positive feedback loops. So no one really knows, but it's dangerous and unknown and potentially catastrophic.
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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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