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THE OPTIMIST'S TELESCOPE
Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
A trailblazing exploration of how we can think more strategically and thoughtfully about the future - our own, our family's, and our community's.
Many of us never learned how to make smart, long-term decisions, so we avoid making them. In a world where immediate satisfaction is the norm, that's easy to do. Whether it's our finances (20% of Americans have nothing saved for retirement), our health (our overuse of antibiotics has triggered a shocking rise in superbugs), or our jobs (we slash R&D budgets and then our companies fail to keep pace with competitors), we avoid mastering the skills we need to make smart choices about the future. Yet today more than ever, we need to understand how to make such choices -- for ourselves, our families, and the world at large.
Bina Venkataraman understands this. As a former senior advisor in the Obama administration, she led efforts to build partnerships between government and business to combat climate change and learned firsthand that we don't have the vocabulary to talk about thinking ahead. Drawing from her own experience and exciting new research in biology, psyhcology and elsehwhere, she identifies the most effective ways to think clearly about long-term decisions. In the process, she explains the crucial roles that biology, the environment, and culture play in our decision-making and she highlights the surprisingly human and achievable changes we can implement to make smarter, more thoughtful choices in our lives.
The result is a book that shows us the productive ways we can rethink decision-making so that all of us can approach the challenges of the future more clearly.
Bina Venkataraman teaches in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at MIT, and served as senior advisor for climate change innovation in the Obama White House where she led efforts for the first U.S. Presidential Climate Action Plan and built partnerships between the government and the private sector to combat climate change. A former fellow at the New America Foundation, she is a former Director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT.
Bina Venkataraman understands this. As a former senior advisor in the Obama administration, she led efforts to build partnerships between government and business to combat climate change and learned firsthand that we don't have the vocabulary to talk about thinking ahead. Drawing from her own experience and exciting new research in biology, psyhcology and elsehwhere, she identifies the most effective ways to think clearly about long-term decisions. In the process, she explains the crucial roles that biology, the environment, and culture play in our decision-making and she highlights the surprisingly human and achievable changes we can implement to make smarter, more thoughtful choices in our lives.
The result is a book that shows us the productive ways we can rethink decision-making so that all of us can approach the challenges of the future more clearly.
Bina Venkataraman teaches in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at MIT, and served as senior advisor for climate change innovation in the Obama White House where she led efforts for the first U.S. Presidential Climate Action Plan and built partnerships between the government and the private sector to combat climate change. A former fellow at the New America Foundation, she is a former Director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT.
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Published 2019-08-27 by Riverhead |