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Radio 4,30 Dec 2021,28 mins

The Climate Game

Think with Pinker

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How flaws in the way we think make it harder to tackle climate change. In his guide to thinking better, Professor Steven Pinker examines how global warming is also a problem in the psychology of judgement and decision making. To search for solutions, he鈥檚 joined by Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and author of 鈥楬ow to Avoid a Climate Disaster鈥 and by Professor Hannah Fry, senior lecturer at University College London鈥檚 Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, co-presenter of Rutherford and Fry on Radio 4 and author of 鈥楬ello World: How to be human in the age of the machine.鈥 What can the game rock, paper scissors teach us about preventing a climate catastrophe? Producer: Imogen Walford Editor: Emma Rippon Think with Pinker is produced in partnership with The Open University.

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