Saturday, January 16, 2016

Sound reasoning …

… No 'silver bullet' exists for fixing climate change - San Diego Jewish World.

Masover has done his homework and has thought about these issues a lot. He’s see the big picture so to speak. “I do think that focus on climate change — or any issue — in isolation can distort the range of threats to Earth’s biosphere through over-simplification. We live amid and as a part of complex, interdependent systems, amid complexity that is (as near as I can make out) beyond the ability of individual human beings even to comprehend in toto. Reduction of this complexity to narrow analyses of cause and effect, to isolated problems and focused solutions, is nearsighted and insufficient absent circumspect acknowledgement that any ‘explanation,’ ‘portrayal,’ or ‘solution’ is at best part of a larger picture. That said, I think it makes good sense to emphasize climate change (and what humans can and can’t do about it at this point) in some books and films, so long as that emphasis acknowledges a range of concerns beyond the principal frame of the story or analysis.”

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