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Public Lecture: Restructuring climate policy for a partisan era |
2011.05.04 06:31:39 | |
Professor Mike Hulme, Restructuring climate policy for a partisan era Thursday 5th May Turner Hall, TAFE, Maryann Street, Ultimo 5.30pm Drinks, 6pm Lecture
I suggest that our ultimate goal is not to ‘stop climate change’. We have mistaken the means for the end. Our goal is surely to ensure that the basic human needs of the world’s growing population are adequately met; that we move towards a development paradigm where we are living within our techno-ecological means and not beyond them; and that our societies are adequately equipped to withstand the risks and dangers that come from a changing climate - distinguishing whether those risks and dangers are natural or not is hardly the point. It is not more certain scientific predictions that we need; nor a charismatic leader to arise from ‘the east’; nor grand dreams of creating a global thermostat in the sky above. It is what Sheila Jasanoff has referred to as the ‘technologies of humility’ – ‘disciplined methods to accommodate the partiality of scientific knowledge and to act under irredeemable uncertainty’ - that will offer us the best prospects for taming the risks of climate change. Tags: #hotscience | climate change | Mike Hulme | hot science global citizens
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