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From Prime Video to Net Zero: Sally Fouts on Leading Amazon's Climate Pledge (opens the original)
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Walk past a restaurant with nobody in it and you keep walking. That is how Sally Fouts describes trying to recruit companies to Amazon’s Climate Pledge in the spring of 2020. She had started the job three days before the world shut down, and figured she had ruined her career.Once a few tables fill, the place fills fast. More than 700 companies have now committed to net zero by 2040, a decade ahead of Paris.In my field the empty restaurant is called social proof, and it is one of the most reliabl
The emotion that predicts climate action (it's not fear) (opens the original)
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There’s a well-documented finding in behavioral science that fear is a terrible motivator for sustained action. It grabs attention, then it paralyzes. What actually moves people over time is something closer to attachment: protecting what you love.Kate Marvel understands this better than almost anyone. She’s an astrophysicist who spent her early career studying the multiverse, then looked around and realized that of everything out there, Earth is the only good planet. Her words. She calls hersel
No Such Thing as Over There: Dr. Amita Gupta on the Long Haul (opens the original)
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You can’t just switch off the light and expect everything to keep running. That’s how Dr. Amita Gupta, the Florence Sabin Professor of Infectious Diseases and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, described what happened when US funding stopped overnight. HIV patients in India showed up to treatment centers with no drugs and no staff. Clinical trials were thrown into limbo mid-study. Hopkins is down 43% in federal research funding, and the USAID
Not a Belief System: Maxine Dexter on Defending Science in Congress (opens the original)
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I study why people believe what they believe. The finding that never goes away: we don’t judge the claim, we judge the person making it.Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, a physician, told us science is “a universal equalizer,” not a belief system but fact. She’s right. The problem is that a fact only moves people when they trust the person holding it. And trust in doctors and scientists is being torn down on purpose.Dexter is a physician who ran for Congress because she kept watching patients choose
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