{"id":1291,"date":"2009-08-29T20:21:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T03:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2009-08-29T20:21:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T03:21:40","slug":"when-the-stick-doesnt-work-try-the-carrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/08\/29\/when-the-stick-doesnt-work-try-the-carrot\/","title":{"rendered":"The stick isn&#8217;t quick enough \u2013 use the carrot, instead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re built pretty well: put your hand over an open flame and you&#8217;ll jerk it away in a few milliseconds. For this to happen, the nerves in your hand have to feel the heat and send a warning signal to your brain which then sends a series of commands to all the muscles that control the position of your hand \u2013\u00a0and you move it.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re not yet fully wired to deal with more diffuse and slow burning threats. For example, global warming. For one, we can&#8217;t feel it (and when we do feel it, it will not feel like heat but rather higher prices, political instability, mass migrations, etc.) Second, we&#8217;re still not very good at sending signals to coordinate the movements of an entire economy. (Though we&#8217;re getting better at it.)<\/p>\n<p>Steev Hise picks up where Elizabeth Kolbert leaves off and <a href=\"http:\/\/detritus.net\/steev\/mt\/archives\/001129.html\">asks when effective action<\/a> \u2013\u00a0rather than stunts \u2013\u00a0will begin to avert the certain catastrophe of global warming. My guess is that it begins by rerouting the signal paths that drive our economy. <\/p>\n<p>If we are unable to feel the stick until it&#8217;s too late, let&#8217;s start using carrots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re built pretty well: put your hand over an open flame and you&#8217;ll jerk it away in a few milliseconds. For this to happen, the nerves in your hand have to feel the heat and send a warning signal to your brain which then sends a series of commands to all the muscles that control&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}