#ClimateChange is just a SYMPTOM of our grow-dependent, grossly materialistic, mercenary, rapacious & DRIVEN global economy, which is inherently UNSUSTAINABLE on our finite, vulnerable & overpopulated planet, #SpaceshipEarth.
nytimes.com/2020/12/28/opi…
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We were warned about this in the early 1970s, but what did economists (who are #SocialScientists!) do? They advised our leaders to put this very economy into super-global & turbo mode, thereby putting us on course for civilisational suicide, which is where we NOW are.
Annoyingly, the academics responsible for this are either already dead & gone, or living in retirement on their fat pensions & investments. For THEM it paid off - handsomely, but at the expense of #GretaThunberg & her generation, & all generations to come.
It will do us no good to rave & rant at these academics, whom we trusted, but who let us down, & whose successors are STILL in denial of where we are & of what went wrong.
But it's not too late - not yet - for them to come out of denial & recognise our dire reality.
But it's not too late - not yet - for them to come out of denial & recognise our dire reality.
Our ONLY hope is that they quickly do.
I mention that economists are #SocialScientists, because this whole, huge area of academia is failing us, in the same way that medieval medicine failed its patients: Academic understanding of society (esp. the state) is deeply flawed.
I mention that economists are #SocialScientists, because this whole, huge area of academia is failing us, in the same way that medieval medicine failed its patients: Academic understanding of society (esp. the state) is deeply flawed.
The #SocialSciences are trapped in a pre-Copernican/pre-Darwinian dark age, in overreaction to the evils of Nazi Social Darwinism.
The only way out is for them to embrace an evo-sociobiological approach to their disciplines, as I (a non-academic) have been doing for years.
The only way out is for them to embrace an evo-sociobiological approach to their disciplines, as I (a non-academic) have been doing for years.
To demonise the #SocialSciencies or social scientists for their failings would be counterproductive, because we NEED them, their brains, academic skills & authority, to help get us out of the mess we are in, which they themselves have been instrumental in getting us into.
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