2024/01/02

Cultural Evolution Curbs Capacity to Fight Climate Change, Researchers Say

“There is hope, of course, that humans may solve climate change. We have built cooperative governance before, although never like this: in a rush at a global scale.”
– University of Maine evolutionary biologist Tim Waring, on how cultural evolution among sub-global groups works against our ability to tackle shared priorities. “To solve global collective challenges we have to swim upstream,” Waring says of his team’s research into the links between cultural traits and environmental crises.
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