![TED Talks News and Politics show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/030/149/small/tedtalks-news-and-politics.png)
Summary: If an asteroid were headed for Earth, we'd all band together and figure out how to stop it, just like in the movies, right? And yet, when faced with major, data-supported, end-of-the-world problems in real life, too often we retreat into partisan shouting and stalemate. Jonathan Haidt shows us a few of the very real asteroids headed our way -- some pet causes of the left wing, some of the right -- and suggests how both wings could work together productively to benefit humanity as a whole.