Why isn't the brain green?

[undergroundpanther]

Why Isn’t the Brain Green?
By JON GERTNER
Published: April 16, 2009

Two days after Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United States, the Pew Research Center released a poll ranking the issues that Americans said were the most important priorities for this year. At the top of the list were several concerns — jobs and the economy — related to the current recession. Farther down, well after terrorism, deficit reduction and en­ergy (and even something the pollsters characterized as “moral decline”) was climate change. It was priority No. 20. That was last place.

A little more than a week after the poll was published, I took a seat in a wood-paneled room at Columbia University, where a few dozen academics had assembled for a two-day conference on the environment. In many respects, the Pew rankings were a suitable backdrop for the get-together, a meeting of researchers affiliated with something called CRED, or the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. A branch of behavioral research situated at the intersection of psychology and economics, decision science focuses on the mental proces­ses that shape our choices, behaviors and attitudes.



Very interesting article,check it out,it's worth the read...


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19Science-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=magazine

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. because it's not easy being green

[stuntcat]

2. bump kick

because it's the only important thing anymore, but I think I'm the only one in the world who feels that way :crazy:

(and I haven't even finished the article yet, I read too slow! but TY)

[tinrobot]

3. Because the ego rules most brains...

The ego is only concerned about "me" and "more."

When most are out only to get more for themselves, it's hard to do the things required to make our societies "green."

[The Straight Story]

4. It's not green because of Susan Boyle

:)

[underpants]

6. HEY!

:grr:

[The Straight Story]

7. lol great minds think alike

:)

[underpants]

5. Because Susan Boyle has not deemed it as worthy

[wuvuj]

8. It's not so much the brain...

...as it is the social milieu?

We live in a culture and political system that is based on EXPLOITATION....profits....and God is on our side. Manifest destiny says it's OK to kill. Jesus wants funnymentalists to be rich.

Can't expect us to give up our wars and prisons...wall street and making $$...and the wonderful high tech we use to kill people and so forth....just to be nice to the earth?

Drill baby drill....kill baby kill...??