Climate Risk Blindness: Why humans fail to grasp the gravity of the situation | MCRE
From dismissing the severity of the problem to failing to take action, our collective inability to grasp the gravity of the situation threatens to have devastating consequences for ourselves and future generations. Why do we struggle so much to understand and act on something so vital?
If you have the predisposition to be immoral, you go into finance, right? (Probably) wrong!
Behavioral research suggests that sometimes we adhere to the rules due to constrained abilities, not due to superior morality. We must realize that we are not very good at predicting how we would act under those unknown circumstances, and stating that “you are not likely to commit fraud” does not always coincides with actual behavior.