PINKER: Yeah. So, it begins with acknowledging the scientific near-consensus that the climate is warming, that human activity is the cause, and that things could get not only worse, but much, much worse if we fail to mitigate ongoing climate change. The reason that climate change has occurr...
Steven Pinker: It does indeed. Whether the subject is vaccines or treatments or climate change, spokespeople should be chosen that are trusted by different political constituencies. So the best way of getting people to appreciate climate change is not to parade a bunch of lefti...
” Pinker’s follow-up to his 2011 book“The Better Angels of Our Nature.” The earlier work assembled banks of data insupport of his argument that human life is becoming, not worse as many seem tofeel, but globally safer, healthier, longer, less violent, more prosperous,better ...
STEVEN PINKER:One aspect of the book unlike anything that came out of the Enlightenment is the use of data as a basic component of the argumentation. It’s not that I think Enlightenment figures would have found this mode of argument alien. On the contrary, the use of graphs to visualize ...