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Frogs in Boiling Water - the Psychology of Global Warming

Harvard professor Dan Gilbert discusses why we are especially unsuited to respond to global warming.

Update: jwray points out that the frog thing is a myth. As a metaphor it may not be true - but it sure is truthy.
winkler1says...

Thanks for telling me. I was hoping it was just my machine. Can't believe they have the content hosted at yahoo and not enough bandwidth to stream smoothly. Pathetic.

For what it's worth, you can d/l the Quicktime on their site.

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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 4:12am PST - promote requested by original submitter winkler1.

fissionchipssays...

Global, slow-drip challenges like climate change are entirely new to us. The risks we faced in the past century (nuclear war, for example) were highly tangible, allowing us to rally against them. The 21st century is marked by a host of amorphous risks. Previous methods of negotiating our response in the public sphere no longer apply--it's time to try something new.

siftbotsays...

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 10:55am PDT - promote requested by fissionchips.

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This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by eric3579.

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