{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/5bb8db1dac8922f843285c2e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"092: Paternalism and pride: why fly to Africa to eek out minor efficiencies when we waste hundreds of times more?","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1538840781981-5d4bf853422fe1572f401d38216cb839.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>First world people pollute hundreds of times more than third world people yet the material prosperity doesn't translate to greater happiness.</p><p>We could reduce our waste by 75% while <em>improving</em> our quality of life, yet we claim we can't do it.</p><p>Yet we travel to the third world to change them!</p><p>Leaders are more effective when humble than proud. Paternalism rarely helps any relationships.</p><p>In this post I explore how we in the first world act with paternalism and pride to justify our extravagant, wasteful behavior, missing how we could learn from others.</p>","author_name":"Joshua Spodek: Author, Speaker, Professor"}