Are scientists becoming involved in campaigning for particular political responses, and, if so, is this a good or bad thing? Is the time for debate really over, or are political choices being obscured by talk of scientific consensus? Are the threats so great and the science so certain that there really is only one course of action? In this clip, journalist Joe Kaplinsky says that the entire environmental agenda--particularly with respect to global warming--has become a moral issue, rather than a scientific one.
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Joe Kaplinsky
Joe Kaplinsky is a science writer and researcher. He has carried out experimental research in low temperature physics and more recently in biophysics. Kaplinsky has worked as a patent analyst on a wide range of technologies including computing, nuclear waste disposal, electricity generation and chemical engineering.
Kaplinsky has written and contributed to debates on many topics dealing with science, risk and democracy. Kaplinsky recently contributed a chapter on Chernobyl and nuclear power to the collection Science vs. Superstition: The case for a new Scientific Enlightenment, edited by James Panton and Oliver Hartwich.
Well I'm not a scientist so maybe I don't get to vote what's fact or fiction, but I bet those kids stayed a little more awake in school that day. I never watched the movie myself, I read the book... oh wait there was no book.
On a regular basis I see dogs and cats, lots of pigeons, sometimes a seagull or a black bird, and if I'm really unlucky some cockroaches and rodents... a forest to me is a park with more then five trees and a rainforest is when I am in that park and it starts to rain... The point is that I am so far removed from controlling my daily environment it's hard for me to look at the extreme messages the media is sending me and translate that into action.
But you definitely CAN control and have an impact on the environment
Well I'm not a scientist so maybe I don't get to vote what's fact or fiction, but I bet those kids stayed a little more awake in school that day. I never watched the movie myself, I read the book... oh wait there was no book.
On a regular basis I see dogs and cats, lots of pigeons, sometimes a seagull or a black bird, and if I'm really unlucky some cockroaches and rodents... a forest to me is a park with more then five trees and a rainforest is when I am in that park and it starts to rain... The point is that I am so far removed from controlling my daily environment it's hard for me to look at the extreme messages the media is sending me and translate that into action.