Clown-show comes to mind

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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    13 days ago

    “It is all throughout the social sciences curriculum, and we’ll just signal it now and signpost where that is. But it is it is definitely there. I’ve had a look.”

    It maybe “in there”; but climate change is not a social science, this is atmospheric physics, thermodynamics and chemistry.

    Trying to reframe it as a social science is terrible.

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      12 days ago

      I totally agree. I also think that the whole field since the 80s should be studied in social science as a masterclass in how corporate interests can influence public discourse and government policy to achieve outcomes that benefit business at the expense of people and the environment.

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        12 days ago

        This along with the tobacco, asbestos, glyphosate and a few others; where corporate interests subverted scientific evidence to influence policy to ensure that their business interests are favored.

  • Garbagio@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    Reminder to all the people who think of NZ as a sane capitalist democracy: Capital and financialization will come for us all. America didn’t metastasize, capitalism did, and it’s demands do not change.