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Human Cooperation and the Crises of Climate Change, COVID-19, and Misinformation

2021-06-19

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<p>Abstract Contemporary society is facing many pressing challenges, including climate change, Covid-19, and misinformation. Here we illustrate how these three crises are each social dilemmas, characterized by a conflict between short-term self-interest and longer-term collective interest. The climate crisis requires paying costs today to benefit distant others in the future. The Covid-19 crisis requires the less...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6tpa8

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