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> Sometimes I wonder if science can ever truly be put to work for mass society? It seems not. Come now, that's short-sighted. Have you forgotten the hundreds o
by WhompingWindows 7y ago
> Sometimes I wonder if science can ever truly be put to work for mass society? It seems not.
Come now, that's short-sighted. Have you forgotten the hundreds of scientific discoveries making your daily life better than it was for your great-great-grandparents?
- dawg- 7y agoof course, but I'm not sure those discoveries have been "put to work" with the intention and mass organization in the same way climate science has been. I think with climate science we are trying to organize scientific knowledge and use it to solve a problem on a planetary scale that has not really been done before. There have been huge international interdisciplinary efforts like CERN and the ISS for example. But nothing so messily intertwined with people's personal lives, values, principles as climate science.