{"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/61218998fd9ac90012a17779?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"497: Don't let judgment and criticism kill action: Gernot Wagner's personal example.","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1629587782306-703cc60464fee05ba9787b04b19b3d2e.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><a href=\"https://gwagner.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Gernot Wagner</a> posted a story in <em>New York</em> Magazine about personally acting in a big way on his living situation.</p><p>People criticized his sharing something vulnerable. Sadly, people acting in stewardship, in everyone's interest, still today have to suffer criticism. I describe in this episode his article, the criticism he faced (as did I), and the systemic effect of this criticism.</p><p>Quoting from my book, I'll show how strongly blind criticism exacerbates inaction and accelerates polluting. Beyond annoying, it augments the problems.</p><ul><li>Gernot's article: <a href=\"https://www.curbed.com/2021/08/green-emissions-building-coop-climate-change.html#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How I Greened My Prewar Apartment (It Wasn’t Easy): A climate economist overhauls his leaky, 200-year-old co-op.</a></li><li>His <a href=\"https://gwagner.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">home page</a></li><li>The video of <a href=\"https://youtu.be/XITebeK2Syk?t=956\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Meadows' hula hoop demonstration</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Joshua Spodek: Author, Speaker, Professor"}