{"id":262,"date":"2009-12-04T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-12-10T20:51:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T01:51:52","slug":"the-human-mind-isnt-ready-to-cut-co2-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"The Human Mind Isn&#8217;t Ready to Cut CO2 Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Annie Jia of <\/em>ClimateWire, <em>THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 19, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0040\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0040\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0040_thumb.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a> What will solve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climatechange\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a>? Will it be technology? Policy? A growing number of researchers and activists say it&#8217;s what&#8217;s behind it all: people. And understanding them is vital to addressing climate change. The problem is that people don&#8217;t understand people very well, research shows.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, a researcher at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vt.edu\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University<\/a> named Scott Geller and colleagues conducted a workshop in <a href=\"http:\/\/neaap.ncat.org\/db\/\" target=\"_blank\">residential energy efficiency<\/a> and then measured its impacts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/cwire\/2009\/11\/19\/19climatewire-how-understanding-the-human-mind-might-save-16335.html?pagewanted=1\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of article]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effect of millions of people choosing to save energy and recycle would make the difference in the climate change equation, but research shows that people are not ready to do much of either.This article lays out the problem and proposes some solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}