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Pessimism and Optimism in the Debate on Climate Change : A Critical Analysis
In the debate on climate change commentators often express pessimistic or optimistic views. We see this mainly in the media and popular literature, but also in variousacademic felds. The aim of this paper is to investigate diferent kinds of pessimistic and optimistic views put forward in this debate and suggest explanations of thediversity of views. The paper concludes that pessimism and optimism may concern,for example, climate change as an unmitigated or poorly mitigated process, mitigation of climate change or specifc measures of mitigation. These aspects are important to distinguish, because a person can be pessimist concerning climate change asan unmitigated or poorly mitigated process and optimist concerning mitigation ofclimate change, and be pessimist concerning one specifc mitigation measure andoptimist concerning another. It is suggested that the diversity of pessimistic andoptimistic views is due to the uncertainty of scientifc climate models and the infuence of evaluative and ideological assumptions. ; Funding: Linköping University
Pessimism and Optimism in the Debate on Climate Change : A Critical Analysis
In the debate on climate change commentators often express pessimistic or optimistic views. We see this mainly in the media and popular literature, but also in variousacademic felds. The aim of this paper is to investigate diferent kinds of pessimistic and optimistic views put forward in this debate and suggest explanations of thediversity of views. The paper concludes that pessimism and optimism may concern,for example, climate change as an unmitigated or poorly mitigated process, mitigation of climate change or specifc measures of mitigation. These aspects are important to distinguish, because a person can be pessimist concerning climate change asan unmitigated or poorly mitigated process and optimist concerning mitigation ofclimate change, and be pessimist concerning one specifc mitigation measure andoptimist concerning another. It is suggested that the diversity of pessimistic andoptimistic views is due to the uncertainty of scientifc climate models and the infuence of evaluative and ideological assumptions. ; Funding: Linköping University
Pessimism and Optimism in the Debate on Climate Change : A Critical Analysis
Nordgren, Anders (author)
2021-01-01
ISI:000672357300001
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Mitigation , Etik , Ideology , Climate change , Uncertainty , Optimism , Pessimism , Ethics
DDC:
710
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