There are so many to choose from in this interview, I suppose I’ll just have to list them all. But #3 is the most profound.
From the Atlantic:
An Interview With Nobel Prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling, Part Two – Conor Clarke
#1 …And what I don’t know is whether Americans are really willing to understand that and do anything for the benefit of the unborn Chinese.
#2 It’s a tough sell. And probably you have to find ways to exaggerate the threat. And you can in fact find ways to make the threat serious.
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#3 But I tend to be rather pessimistic. I sometimes wish that we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening — you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth — that would get people very concerned about climate change. But I don’t think that’s going to happen.
h/t to Tom Nelson
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OMG what a ridiculous interview. The questions were fine but the answers.. what farfetched… sounds like he gets his science from watching Star trek
According to reports, ther temperature dropped by 10 degrees during that hour long eclipse
I’m reminded of the old saying, “Never talk politics with your doctor.”
When you hear an expert on one thing talking about something else, you have to shelve whatever deference you might have had for the speaker and just listen to him like you would anyone else, skeptically.
I’ve known lots of brilliant engineers who couldn’t figure out cooking or baseball or hold a decent conversation about the arts. Stick to your strengths.