Beyond Nonpartisan Discourse : Radical Knowledge for Extreme Times
Armiero, Marco (Kungl. Tekniska högskolan (Estocolm (Suècia))

Data:	2020
Resum:	The majority of scientists agree on climate change and on the most daunting environmental problems humans are facing today. Moved by a commendable desire to contribute to the solution of these problems, several scientists have decided to speak up, telling the scientific truth about climate change to decision-makers and the public. Although appreciating the commitment to intervene in the public arena, I discuss some limits of these interventions. I argue that stating the reality of climate change does not prescribe any specific solution and sometimes it seems faint in distributing responsibilities. I ask whether unveiling/knowing the truth can be enough to foster radical transformations. Can knowledge move people towards transformative actions if power relationships do not change? Various environmental justice controversies prove that even when science is certain-and this is rarely the case in that kind of controversies-knowing might be not enough in the face of power structures preventing free choices and radical changes. In the end of my article, I state that it is fair to recognize that scientists have done their parts, and it is now up to social movements to foster the radical changes in power relationships that are needed for transforming societies.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Politicization ; Scientific consensus ; Radical transformations ; Truth ; Environmental justice
Publicat a:	Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (June 2020) , p. 147-153, ISSN 2717-8943

DOI: 10.46863/ecocene.44

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