If humans are so adaptable and smart, why can't we get them to act more sustainably?
Can we design policies and built environment to make it easier for people to do the right thing?
Why doesn't education work better?
Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness. Thaler and Sunstein
set default but provide options
Thin by design - Wansink
smaller packages of snacks
don't eat in the kitchen
We don't "teach" values in government funded schools.
There has been success in teaching adolescents to value nature (Inglehart - European Values Survey).
Educated and literate adults have polarized opinions about global climate change, not convergent that gets worse with more education (Yale Cultural Cognition Project at http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/).
