“It’s easier to override an automatic, bottom-up response with top-down reasoning than it is to deal with the complete absence of a signal,” Columbia University psychologist Elke Weber observes. “But that’s the situation when it comes to dealing with the environment. There’s nothing here in the Hudson Valley on this lovely summer day to tell me the planet is warming.”
— Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (Daniel Goleman), Loc. 1919–21