Pushkin.

He's giving us a thumbs up.

He's giving us a thumbs up.

So as usual, we just have you start by introducing yourself.

Hi, I'm Dan Gilbert.

For the opening of this new season, I'm really rolling out the big guns.

Dan Gilbert is a huge figure in happiness science.

He's one of the fields most respected psychologists and an absolute whiz at explaining some of the most puzzling aspects of human nature.

And that is going to be a big help today, because the question I have for him is as confounding

as it is serious.

This episode is all about the puzzle of why we're not doing more

for things that are really hurting us potentially badly. That sounds great.

Every January the Happiness Lab puts out a new year new you type season.

We explore the personal challenges that so many of us face

and the ways we can understand them better to make a fresh start in the year ahead.

But this year we're doing something slightly different. This season is going to focus on a topic that makes a lot of us feel scared, angry, and vulnerable.

That topic is climate change.

The federal government says this fire season is unprecedented.

Very serious fire seasons in the past, but this one just exceeds our historic experience.

2023 a shattered record. past but this one just exceeds our sort of experience.

2023 a shattered record.

The dangerous fast moving torrents

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