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NYT’s opinion writer Paul Krugman is declaring #climate is now a culture war issue 🤔
I worked in the U.S. Senate ~20 years ago. Covered climate as a journalist. Cofounded an NGO focused on science policy issues during elections. Am finishing a dissertation on how Congress has made decisions about #science policy for the last 1/2 century - with climate as a central theme.
This isn’t new. #ClimateChange has *always* been a culture war issue.
thing is that framing it as a culture war validates the opposition by entirely reframing the issue. When it's just human-caused climate change, one one side there are humans, and on the other side there's the environment we need to stop destroying. When it's framed as a "culture war", then, on one side there are humans, and on the other side there are humans. It's reframing to ignore the environmental damage and pretend the real issue is bickering about if the issue even exists.
Inasmuch as from the funders' perspective, the "culture war" is a pretext for getting tax cuts, insider deals and other public financing of their greed.
In a very tangible sense at times... like, say, when we wiped out the bison to destroy native culture and populations so we could pillage still more natural resources.
While climate change *can* be viewed as a “culture-war” issue , would it not be more helpful to categorise it as a global 🌎 issue, necessitating action at global level?
In case you (or anyone else concerned/alarmed by climate change) is interested, below (via toot) is a petition for radical reform of the UN 🇺🇳, which has been vocal but, sadly, ineffective when faced with climate change and other challenges of this century.
Agree. I couldn't understand that take from Krugman. Where has he been for the last few decades? In the USA it's been an ideological/party issue at least since the first IPCC report (and James Hansen testimony).
Climate change has always been a culture war issue. Big oil executives had more money to push their self-serving point of view than scientists, Greenpeace an millions of mostly young (penniless) people. Political contributions won. kcra.com/article/earth-day-thi…
The first Earth Day — held on April 22, 1970 — succeeded in raising environmental awareness in the U.S., leading to the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency just three months later.
One of the basic problems is that the Evangelical part of the religious right truly believes the Rapture will happen within theirs or their children's lifetime so there is no reason to care about Earth. They also believe Jesus loves greed, of course...
I think there's been a turn for the worse: it used to be climate change denialism, but now "I'm going to accelerate climate change to piss off liberals" is a stance.
Maybe I didn't notice it before. But it feels like a novel and terrible development.
(Of course, that was Russia's official policy already 7-8 years ago, and that, I knew)
It’s worth noting that by Fall of 2012, the majority of both Republican & Democrat voters acknowledged #ClimateChange is occurring. But not the majority of all politicians.
Back then, I ran large public opinion surveys out of UT Austin & it was the first time citizens from both parties agreed. (Here’s a 2015 SciAm piece w totals blogs.scientificamerican.com/p…)
We can’t said what changed attitudes, but a drought had impacted U.S. crops that summer & the pope was also discussing #climate. /2
By "not the majority of all politicians", we presume you mean the republican party, driven by their owners - the tycoons of the fossil fuel and mineral extraction industry.
The #ClimateCrisis is yet another reason for Democrats in deep-red districts and states to stop *wasting* half their votes and #PrimaryFromTheCenter to flush the extremist 💩 out of Congress and state legislatures.
@Ruth_Mottram In the #bubble of #politicians the world looks different. Same as the bubble of #ceo or other "leaders". The selection processes and internal dynamics tied to their role makes them more easily extremists. #memetics
Ever talk to UNH’s Larry Hamilton? He’s done many surveys on science. Years ago, the 4-way split D-I-R-T was especially instructive: twitter.com/johnmashey/status/…
I masterminded the Green Envelope Contest on April 1.
We started leaving green envelopes all over campus. Each envelope had a note stating that one of the envelopes had $50 inside. Students and teachers got into it, grabbing for envelopes, tossing them out in class, etc.
At the end of the day, it was announced that the winning envelope was found by the moderator of the sponsoring club (in his coat pocket, even).
A couple of years after I'd graduated, a friend told me that they'd done it again, with the same hilarious results.
The Exp 69 crew is unpacking @NorthropGrumman's #Cygnus cargo craft and gearing up for another spacewalk while also exploring high temp physics and semiconductor crystals today. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20… #ISS
The Exp 69 crew is unpacking @NorthropGrumman's #Cygnus cargo craft and gearing up for another spacewalk while also exploring high temp physics and semiconductor crystals today. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20… #ISS
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Scholars often hold an over-inflated myth about how quickly and easily our research can contribute to change.
Today when asked for a positive example of impactful research, I was reminded of @dynarski's 15 years of work to simplify government financial aid forms
That is helpful perspective, as I'm starting to feel deeply frustrated about progress on things I've been working on for about a decade.
Reminds me of Moyer's Movement Action Plan, where the critical pivot from resistance to change is getting through the "perception of failure" phase. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement…
One reason we get an over-inflated sense of research impact is that science is often deployed by powerful people & institutions to support things they were going to do anyway.
The result? Large amounts of fanfare and money go toward people and projects that have had minimal impact on the ultimate outcome.
Zoom says in a blog that it doesn’t use content from video calls on its platform “without user consent” following revelations that its TOS had been updated to seemingly give it broad user data control for AI work.
Mars is spinning faster! 🌀 Before it retired last December, @NASAInSight sent back radio science data that’s providing new details about how fast Mars rotates and how much it wobbles. See what the latest findings mean: go.nasa.gov/47jcx8x #NASAMars
Climate Change Is Death by a Thousand Cuts, "with numerous smaller impacts occurring simultaneously or in close succession. Each impact on its own might be manageable, but collectively they could sum up to a significant problem." kottke.org/23/08/climate-chang…
¿Has leído el sábado de comunes de julio? 🤓 Nuestras lecturas recomendadas del último mes recorren temas como tecnología y cambio climático, inteligencia artificial, el metaverso y las nuevas redes sociales, entre otros.
LIVE NOW: NASA and @BoeingSpace leaders provide an update on the #Starliner spacecraft ahead of its first flight carrying astronauts to the @Space_Station. Tune in. youtube.com/watch?v=iqPslXCL8f… #NASA
NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT, Monday, Aug. 7, to provide an update on the first astronaut flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner to...
#OTD 5 years ago, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) captured its first light image, showing a wide swath of the southern sky using all four of its wide field cameras (image from one camera shown here).
We are excited to announce a new program for @us_rse members! Part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for US-RSE has been earmarked for the Community and Travel Grants program, to:
* Grow & diversify the US-RSE & RSE community * Connect people in the US-RSE community * Help people grow in their careers * Increase visibility & viability of RSEng as a career * Create opportunities for underserved community members
Using data from @NASAMars' InSight lander, scientists have made the most precise measurements ever of the Red Planet’s rotation. go.nasa.gov/3DIsWGa How? Giant radio antennas on Earth! 🌏📡🔴 Specifically, @NASASCaN's Deep Space Network.
"A representation of the Egyptian Goddess Neith as a woman with an emblem of a shield with crossing arrows over her head, holding an Ankh and the Was scepter as she was depicted in The Tomb of Nefertari, 1255 BCE. This image contains some artistic liberties so that Wikipedia readers can tell her apart from the rest of the Egyptian Deities."
IMO not shield and arrows, loom and weaving.
Eternal Space, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
💙 Are you passionate about open source? 💙 Do you want share an update about developments in Nextcloud? 💙 Passionate about privacy-focused projects? These are just a few questions to ask yourself that could be great speaking topics! Be a speaker at Ne…
Commander Moonikin Campos, the manikin that flew on the #Artemis I mission, is back from vacation and is working as a crash test dummy.
Not the Moon, for sure, but he continues to inform our understanding of the experience of flying inside @NASA_Orion: go.nasa.gov/45d0urw #NASAArtemis #Artemis
NASA’s Commander Moonikin Campos, a manikin that flew on the Artemis I flight test beyond the Moon wearing the OCSS (Orion Crew Survival System) spacesuit, is continuing its journey of exploration on Earth through a unique series of testing as a cras…
NASA’s Search and Rescue team participated in the Underway Recovery Test 10 to validate the #Artemis II astronauts’ beacons, which allow recovery teams to locate the crew should they need to egress from @NASA_Orion. go.nasa.gov/3OihJ3W #NASAArtemis #Artemis
When Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen splash down in the Pacific Ocean after a 10-day mission around the Moon, NASA’s landing and recovery team will be r…
NASA’s upcoming PACE mission will help scientists learn more about ocean ecology, including the species of phytoplankton present in blooms and the rates of their growth.
PACE's technologies will provide unprecedented insight into Earth's ocean and atmosphere, which impact life by regulating climate and making Earth habitable
La campaña #tecnoafecciones, derivada del proyecto, se plantea como un recorrido por cada una de las dimensiones que hemos decidido abordar en el proceso de producción y consumo de tecnologías…
You can make posts appear on your Mastodon account at specific times using the post scheduling feature.
Scheduling isn't in the official apps or web interface, but it is available through third party apps such as Tusky and Fedilab, and through third party websites like plan.fedilab.app and buffer.com/mastodon
The feature is built into Mastodon, but for some unknown reason there's no official interface for it yet. That's why it is only available through third parties.
Two cosmonauts will exit the space station at 10:45 am ET on Wednesday for a spacewalk to install debris shields and relocate hardware live on @nasa TV. nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-se… #ISS
NASA will provide live coverage beginning at 10:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 9, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station. The spacewalk is expected to begin about 10:45 a.m.
More than 1,400 light-years from Earth, the exoplanet WASP-12 b is being slowly devoured by its star. Scientists think it could be gone in 10 million years. But not today. #MondayMotivation: Today belongs to you!✨ #NASAExoplanets
Ready for some story time? If you're into Visual Novels, there's a good chance for you to find something new to play on Steam in their Visual Novel Fest.
Indie developer Orangepixel currently has two really fun looking games worth looking into, both offering full Native Linux support and they both have newer demos available to try out.
NASA will provide live coverage beginning at 10:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 9, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station. The spacewalk is expected to begin about 10:45 a.m.
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