Re:150 Years of Nature
by spodek on Saturday November 09, 2019 @01:05PM
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Science to me means observing and experimenting with nature, then honestly reporting the results.
With the science around the environment so conclusive and the timeline for preventing suffering so short, I consider the most important task of a scientist to make the results usable -- not just understandable and meaningful, but clear in what to do. That means living sustainably ourselves. When Greta gave scientific results to the US Congress, they still didn't know what to do with it.
Since few leaders will learn science, scientists learning to lead will make a difference. Fact, figures, doom, gloom, and such, however correct, aren't leadership. Nor is telling people what to do, which generally motivates people to keep doing what they were.
Individual action isn't widespread change, but scientists who don't follow their advice undermine that advice and lead others also not to follow it, which is why sites like https://noflyclimatesci.org are so important.
It's not the only solution, but until we make scientists who live unsustainably go the way of a surgeon general who smokes, all our results will become like the Library of Alexandria after nature corrects our population.
With the science around the environment so conclusive and the timeline for preventing suffering so short, I consider the most important task of a scientist to make the results usable -- not just understandable and meaningful, but clear in what to do. That means living sustainably ourselves. When Greta gave scientific results to the US Congress, they still didn't know what to do with it.
Since few leaders will learn science, scientists learning to lead will make a difference. Fact, figures, doom, gloom, and such, however correct, aren't leadership. Nor is telling people what to do, which generally motivates people to keep doing what they were.
Individual action isn't widespread change, but scientists who don't follow their advice undermine that advice and lead others also not to follow it, which is why sites like https://noflyclimatesci.org are so important.
It's not the only solution, but until we make scientists who live unsustainably go the way of a surgeon general who smokes, all our results will become like the Library of Alexandria after nature corrects our population.