NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Mary Douglas, Group Theory
20 Jun 2013
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Climate change 4: thought communities & climate solutions. Darrin durant/james elwick: diverse outlooks, diverse solutions to climate change. Grid scale: how many rules a society has. Group scale: how much you have to deal with other people. Ultimately, one s views on how serious a problem climate change is, and what should be done about . Remember: since people argue from different premises, they ll never agree on a single course of action in dealing with climate change. Why not take diverse approaches to the problem- Silver buckshot where we experiment with approaches that work with. Caricatured main worldview of each though- community . One climate scientist s view of how this affects our views about nature (and thus climate and also what to do about climate change: fatalist- unpredictable. Outcomes are a function of chance: heirarchists- resilient with care. Nature is tolerant if treated with care. Outcomes can be managed to be sustainable: individualists- resilient.
