{"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/5dfedcf48a389e0f3fd852e3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"265: I was wrong","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1576983586412-eefcccc8485db922e9d2a353c840ed5a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Here are the notes I read from for this episode:</p><p><br></p><h2>Ways I was wrong</h2><p>I usually start my story about acting more sustainably with my personal challenge to buy no packaged food for a week. In my second TEDx talk I describe how that challenge emerged from stopping eating meat, then hydrogenated oil, corn syrup, and foods where fiber had been removed, which was my proxy for overly processed food.</p><p>I talk about my love for the beauty of nature, which I describe when people ask me what I ask guests, \"What I think about when I think about the environment.\"</p><p>But I hadn't shared some longstanding thoughts that didn't fit the narrative.</p><p>Not that I hid them, I had just grown out of them.</p><p>I rewatched a movie called The Doctor, starring William Hurt, about a doctor who remained so aloof from his patients that, however brilliant, charming, and funny, his bedside manner made being his patient miserable</p><p>The movie recounts how his sickness leads to seeing the lack of caring and vulnerability in the hospital system</p><p>As my tears streamed down my face watching the movie, I saw vulnerabilities I protected.</p><ul><li>Efficiency, just living in cities</li><li>I thought technology would arise that would solve our environmental problems</li><li>For example, fusion seemed an obvious solution.</li><li>Young enough widening or building more roads seemed a solution to traffic jams, at least while I sat in them.</li><li>As I learned what city planners learned, I discovered that roads often create congestion, after a brief period of relieving traffic.</li><li>Carbon sequestration</li><li>Birth rate reduction and China only example</li><li>That I wouldn't like unpackaged food or not flying</li><li>One person couldn't make a difference</li><li>People wouldn't like it</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Joshua Spodek: Author, Speaker, Professor"}