Uncanny Wisdom: Human Behavior and Sustainability | George Rogers | TEDxTAMU

George Oliver Rogers is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and a Senior Faculty Fellow of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. His extensive research on human response to risk underscores his current focus on the behavioral aspects of sustainability. His TEDxTAMU talk on meliorism focuses on what he has come to call uncanny wisdom. Uncanny wisdom occurs with we make seemingly rational choices that exacerbate the problem, create other significant issues, or even make the original problem worse. Understanding uncanny wisdom helps us make the tough choices required to create a sustainable future and take responsibility for our actions.