9/11/2023 0 Comments Science class work![]() ![]() In the liberal world, the base assumption is that if we can communicate the science better - or as one former Extinction Rebellion spokesperson argues, if we can try “to tell and hear and live in truth” - our political systems will respond with action. There is a largely liberal and idealist world of climate technocrats where science informs policy, and there is the real, material capitalist world of power. The world of climate politics appears to exist in two completely different worlds. ![]() We seem to be stuck in a doom-loop news cycle where scientific reports create headlines, and earnest climate commentators insist the new report represents a true “wake-up call” for action, and then. The findings are painfully familiar: the world is falling far short of its emission goals, and without rapid reductions this decade, the planet is likely to shoot to beyond 1.5 or even 2 degrees Celsius of warming this century (we are at 1.1 degrees now). On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its “synthesis” report summarizing the findings of its sixth assessment (the last occurred in 2014). ![]()
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