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🗓️ 15 August 2023
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0:00.0 | But it seems to me that climate change is a kind of test of whether the big brain was |
0:04.4 | a good adaptation or not. |
0:06.6 | It can get us in a lot of trouble, and now we'll find out if it can get us out of that |
0:10.5 | trouble. |
0:11.5 | And my guess is that the answer lies less in the size of the brain in the end than in |
0:17.0 | the size of the heart it's attached to. |
0:20.0 | This is going to be ultimately, there's plenty of questions of self-interest and self-preservation, |
0:26.1 | but there are also deep, deep questions about human solidarity that we're going to answer |
0:31.1 | one way or another in the next few years. |
0:34.7 | Hello and welcome to Wise Is Happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes. |
0:41.1 | So, I talked about this on the program before. |
0:49.3 | We have a house north of New York City in a rural area, and I feel very lucky to have |
0:55.5 | it very privileged, and it's in the woods. |
0:59.3 | And one of the things that I've undertaken over the last few years is a project to try |
1:02.7 | to take the emissions of the house and drive them down to zero. |
1:06.6 | So this has been a kind of iterative process. |
1:09.1 | So the first thing we did was, and this is something that it's kind of news you can use, |
1:13.1 | I think I talked about it before, and we hired weatherization folks to come and measure |
1:17.8 | the efficiency of the house and try to get it so that it's much more efficient. |
1:21.5 | It was actually incredibly inefficient. |
1:24.0 | There's a lot of air escaping. |
1:25.8 | We did what's called Blower Door Test to test for that. |
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