Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

This content was posted on  27 Jan 19  by   The Long Now Foundation  on  Podcast
The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action? – Jamie Jones

The warming planet is increasingly the subject of all kinds of fiction. Beyond entertainment or distraction could climate fiction (“Cli-Fi”) actually help us in solving the climate dilemma? Biological anthropologist and environmental scientist James Holland Jones: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0_6ULyIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao explains the neuroscience of narrative: storytelling fits the human brain. Stories might be useful in bringing popular attention to climate and inspiring action on environmental issues.

James Holland Jones: https://people.stanford.edu/jhj1/ is an Associate Professor of Earth System Science and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His research combines human ecology, infectious disease dynamics, social network analysis, and biodemography. Some current research interests include: Climate Change, Mobility, and Infectious Disease; The Evolution of Human Economic Preferences; The Evolution of Human Life Histories; Network-Informed Control of Ebola Virus Disease. He previously spoke at The Interval in 02017 about Evolutionary Perspective On Behavioral Economics: https://theinterval.org/salon-talks/02017/jan/17/rationality-redeemed-evolutionary-perspective-behavioral-economics following his fellowship year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences: https://casbs.stanford.edu/ (CASBS).

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