Scott Barrett on science in our culture
Kyoto Protocol participation map, 2005. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
“Because science has such profound implications for humanity, it’s very important for people to be engaged in these discussions and to understand what science can do for us, and what it can’t do for us. You can’t put science in a box and keep it separate from the rest of us. It’s really part of the discourse of a healthy democracy.” – Scott Barrett
Scott Barrett is an environmental and international political economist at Johns Hopkins University. EarthSky’s Jeremy Shere talked with Dr. Barrett about the economic and diplomatic challenges of addressing climate change in this century – and about why the tools of science are critical to 21st century challenges.
Choosing not to speak with a forked tongue………..
The global economy is saved, now how about turning attention and financial resources to saving the Earth from a meltdown?
It looks as if the Wonder Boys on Wall Street, who caused the current disaster in the world’s financial system, are going to rescue the family of humanity from a meltdown of the global economy.
Is it too much to ask some of these multi-billionaires to provide wealth to save the world from the global “meltdown” of Earth’s ice pack that is occurring in Greenland, Antarctica, the high mountain ranges from the Arctic Cordillera, to the Andes to the Himalayas?
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
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