Midjourney generated image of gray rhino feeling empathy for human
Michele Wucker is the best-selling author of The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore and a new book, You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World. I’ve been recommending The Gray Rhino to pretty much everybody since I read it shortly after it was published in 2021, recommended You Are What You Risk to a mentee in Singapore as recently as last week, and had the privilege of sitting down with Wucker for 90 minutes to discuss the implications and ramifications.
The two podcast episodes that resulted are live on your favorite platform or by clicking on the links below.
CleanTech Talk - EVs, Solar, Batteries, AI, Tesla: Navigating Climate Change's Gray Rhinos - Part…
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on clean technology and the pressing issue of climate change with author and…
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CleanTech Talk - EVs, Solar, Batteries, AI, Tesla: Climate Change's Hidden Risks - Part 2 on Apple…
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on clean technology and the pressing issue of climate change with author and…
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So what’s a gray rhino? Gray rhinos are big, looming dangers and risks that are highly probable, but we ignore because of the ways our brains are wired, or the indeterminacy of when impacts will be felt, or the belief that other people will feel the impacts, or simply because some celebrity gossip is more salient to us.
Climate change was a gray rhino, and that was a major part of our conversation, as I wrote about at the time. Now it’s spinning off impacts including Central American climate refugees trying to cross the southern US border, monsoons that put a third of Bangladesh under water, wildfires that cloak Sydney, Australia, and the cities of North America’s west coast in reeking palls of wildfire smoke, European heat waves that kill tens of thousands of people, and hurricanes which dump vastly more water and cause damage over much broader areas than historically. We didn’t do nearly enough about the gray rhino, to the…