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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
336 pages
Description
"Bina Venkataraman sees the way forward. A former journalist and adviser in the Obama administration, she helped communities and businesses prepare for climate change, and she learned firsthand why people don't think ahead-and what can be done to change that. In The Optimist's Telescope, she draws from stories she has reported around the world and new research in biology, psychology, and economics to explain how we can make decisions that benefit...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Many of us never learned--or have forgotten--how to make smart, long-term decisions, so we avoid making them. In a world where immediate satisfaction is the norm, it's easy to do. Whether it's decisions about our health (our chronic overuse of antibiotics has triggered a shocking rise in immunity to them), our finances (20% of us have nothing saved for retirement), or our jobs (we slash R and D to improve short-term balance sheets and then can't keep...
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