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If you credit science with "trying to save the world" from climate change, you also need to blame it for causing it in the first place. But it doesn't sound as
by _Algernon_ 5y ago
If you credit science with "trying to save the world" from climate change, you also need to blame it for causing it in the first place. But it doesn't sound as impressive to solve a problem you caused in the first place, does it?
- fsloth 5y agoScience has been aware of the potential of increased CO2 emissions to cause heating of the atmosphere and hence global warming for a century. You can thank capital and politics not heeding this until now when the "risks" are becoming realities. Special prize for energy companies for funding skepticism towards climate science because it was obvious 40 years ago that most of the oil we've dug out and burned really should have not been.
- ajuc 5y ago> you also need to blame it for causing it in the first place I suppose. But scientific revolution reduced human suffering considerably by doing so, for example starvation in most of the world stopped and vaccination saved millions of lives. Science solves on problem, possibly causes another and then solves it, etc. The problem with religion is that it only creates problems and invents justifications for why they are natural and good.