{"id":3548,"date":"2010-04-22T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2010-04-22T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:27:09","slug":"earth-day-%e2%80%94-green-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/earth-day-%e2%80%94-green-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day \u2014 Green Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3551 lazyload\" title=\"geo_lead_400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/geo_lead_400-350x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 420px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 420\/315;\" \/>Check out this piece in the <strong>New York Times<\/strong> (published a year ago, but still a useful reminder on Earth Day 2010):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Why Isn\u2019t the Brain Green?<\/h3>\n<div>By <a title=\"More Articles by Jon Gertner\" href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/search\/query?ppds=byll&amp;v1=jon%20gertner&amp;fdq=19960101&amp;td=sysdate&amp;sort=newest&amp;ac=jon%20gertner&amp;inline=nyt-per\">JON GERTNER<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two days after <a title=\"More articles about Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Barack Obama<\/a> was sworn in  as president of the United States, the <a title=\"More articles about Pew Research Center\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/p\/pew_research_center\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Pew Research Center<\/a> released a poll ranking the issues that Americans said were the most  important priorities for this year. At the top of the list were several  concerns \u2014 jobs and the economy \u2014 related to the current recession.  Farther down, well after terrorism, deficit reduction and en\u00adergy (and  even something the pollsters characterized as \u201cmoral decline\u201d) was <a title=\"Recent and archival news about global warming.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/globalwarming\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">climate change<\/a>.  It was priority No. 20. That was last place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Read the rest of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/magazine\/19Science-t.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/JavaScript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nfunction getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1398657600&#038;en=990074b07cb6c48f&#038;ei=5124';}\n\/\/ ]]><\/script> <script type=\"text\/JavaScript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nfunction getShareURL() {\n\treturn encodeURIComponent('http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/19\/magazine\/19Science-t.html');\n}\nfunction getShareHeadline() {\n\treturn encodeURIComponent('Why Isn&#8217;t the Brain Green?');\n}\nfunction getShareDescription() {\n\n\treturn encodeURIComponent('Decision scientists are trying to figure out why it&#8217;s so hard for us to get into a green mind-set. 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